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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (BA Sociology) , Sociology (CBCS) .
| 51. |
Among the following who opposed the biological positivism of Lombroso and emphasized psychological and social positivism. |
| A. | Ferri |
| B. | Sutherland |
| C. | Durkheim |
| D. | Garofalo |
| Answer» A. Ferri | |
| 52. |
This famous Italian criminologist was a member of the Italian Socialist party and got elected to the parliament in 1886. |
| A. | Lombroso |
| B. | Ferri |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Paretto |
| Answer» B. Ferri | |
| 53. |
Name the criminologist who edited the famous Italian newspaper ‘Avanti’ |
| A. | Ferri |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Merton |
| D. | Garofalo |
| Answer» A. Ferri | |
| 54. |
Among the following who argued that crime can be understood only if it is studied by scientific methods? |
| A. | Raffaele Garofalo |
| B. | Ferri |
| C. | Lombroso |
| D. | Sutherland |
| Answer» A. Raffaele Garofalo | |
| 55. |
This Italian criminologist worked as a jurist |
| A. | Ferri |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Sutherland |
| D. | Garofalo |
| Answer» D. Garofalo | |
| 56. |
Name the criminologist who rejected the free will aspect of Lombroso’s classical school. |
| A. | Garofalo |
| B. | Ferri |
| C. | Paretto |
| D. | Merton |
| Answer» A. Garofalo | |
| 57. |
Which criminologist used Charles Darwin’s biological principles for his law of adoption relating to criminal circumstances |
| A. | Merton |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Ferri. |
| Answer» C. Garofalo | |
| 58. |
Which criminologist said that those criminals with permanent psychological anomaly should be sentenced for death because they are incapable of social life? |
| A. | Garofalo |
| B. | Merton |
| C. | Ferri |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» A. Garofalo | |
| 59. |
Famous Italian criminologist Raffaele Garofalo was born in the year ............. |
| A. | 1850 |
| B. | 1851 |
| C. | 1840 |
| D. | 1845 |
| Answer» B. 1851 | |
| 60. |
Who proposed long time imprisonment for those criminals who are fit only for the life of nomadic hordes? |
| A. | Ferri |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Sutherland |
| Answer» C. Garofalo | |
| 61. |
Along with Cesare Lombroso and Raffaele Garofalo who formed the Italian school of Criminology? |
| A. | Merton |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Adler |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» D. Ferri | |
| 62. |
Among the following which criminologist examined the skull of the notorious criminal Giuseppe villela? |
| A. | Lombroso |
| B. | Ferri |
| C. | Merton |
| D. | Garofalo |
| Answer» A. Lombroso | |
| 63. |
The term ‘atavism’ is associated with the theory of .......... |
| A. | Merton |
| B. | Ferri |
| C. | Lombroso |
| D. | Garofalo |
| Answer» C. Lombroso | |
| 64. |
Which criminologist wrote the book ‘On crimes and Punishments’? |
| A. | Lombroso |
| B. | Cesare Beccaria |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» B. Cesare Beccaria | |
| 65. |
Among the following criminologists who opposed torture and death penalty? |
| A. | Garofalo |
| B. | Merton |
| C. | Beccaria |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» C. Beccaria | |
| 66. |
Name the genius who excelled in both the fields of criminology and penotogya |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Ferri |
| D. | Garafelo |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 67. |
Famous criminologist Beccaria was born in the year ............ |
| A. | 1738 |
| B. | 1750 |
| C. | 1779 |
| D. | 1720 |
| Answer» A. 1738 | |
| 68. |
Who is considered as the father of modern criminal law |
| A. | Paretto |
| B. | Ferri |
| C. | Lombroso |
| D. | Beccaria |
| Answer» D. Beccaria | |
| 69. |
According to John Bessler whose work’s had a profound influence on the founding fathers of the United States? |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Adler |
| D. | Paretto |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 70. |
Who is considered as the father of criminal justice |
| A. | Parsons |
| B. | Pareto |
| C. | Durkheim |
| D. | Beccaria |
| Answer» D. Beccaria | |
| 71. |
Name the famous criminologist who born in the Italian city of Milan? |
| A. | Lombroso |
| B. | Beccaria a |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» B. Beccaria a | |
| 72. |
Name the criminologist who founded ‘the academy of fists’ the famous Italian criminology study group? |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Garofalo |
| C. | Ferr |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 73. |
Name the criminologist who was profoundly influenced by the thoughts of French enlightenment thinker Helvetius? |
| A. | Ferri |
| B. | Merton |
| C. | Beccaria |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» C. Beccaria | |
| 74. |
Beccaria’s ground breaking work ‘on crimes and punishments’ was published in the year- ----- |
| A. | 1750 |
| B. | 1720 |
| C. | 1780 |
| D. | 1764 |
| Answer» D. 1764 | |
| 75. |
Name the criminologist who advocated for reform in the criminal low system? |
| A. | Merton |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» B. Beccaria | |
| 76. |
Who argued that criminal justice should conform to rational principles? |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Garofalo |
| C. | Paretto |
| D. | Sutherland |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 77. |
Among the following who introduced the concept of natural law in the field of criminology? |
| A. | Hugo Grotius |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» A. Hugo Grotius | |
| 78. |
Name the criminologist who wrote the book ‘on the law of war and peace? |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Garofalo |
| C. | Grotius |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» C. Grotius | |
| 79. |
Which criminologist wrote the book ‘Free seas’ |
| A. | Grotius |
| B. | Ferri |
| C. | Beccaria |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» A. Grotius | |
| 80. |
Name the criminologist who emphazised the notion of ‘rights’ in criminology? |
| A. | Ferri |
| B. | Grotius |
| C. | Lombroso |
| D. | Beccaria |
| Answer» B. Grotius | |
| 81. |
Name the criminologist who uses the philosophical theories of social contract and utility for developing his own theory? |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Grotius |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 82. |
Who argued that punishment is justified only to defend social contract |
| A. | Grotius |
| B. | Adler |
| C. | Lombroso |
| D. | Beccaria |
| Answer» D. Beccaria | |
| 83. |
Who argued that the method of punishment selected should be that which serves the greatest public good? |
| A. | Lombroso |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» B. Beccaria | |
| 84. |
Name the criminologist who took utilitarian approach towards criminal justice? |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Grotius |
| C. | Ferri |
| D. | Garofalo |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 85. |
According to whom the purpose of punishment is to create a better society, not revenge |
| A. | Adler |
| B. | Merton |
| C. | Beccaria |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» C. Beccaria | |
| 86. |
Who argued that punishment should serve to deter others from committing crimes, and to prevent the criminal from repeating his crimes |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 87. |
Who argued that the temporal proximity of the punishment is needed to maximize deterrence value? |
| A. | Merton |
| B. | Ferri |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Beccaria |
| Answer» D. Beccaria | |
| 88. |
Name the criminologist who emphazises the importance of discouraging criminal activity? |
| A. | Garofalo |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Paretto |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» B. Beccaria | |
| 89. |
Who argued that when a punishment quickly follows a crime, then the two ideas of crime and punishment will be more closely associated in a person’s mind? |
| A. | Garofalo |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Paretto |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» B. Beccaria | |
| 90. |
Name the criminologist who argued that the swiftness of punishment has the greatest impact on deterring others from crime? |
| A. | Pareto |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Beccaria |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» C. Beccaria | |
| 91. |
Who argued that there is no justification for severe punishment? |
| A. | Merton |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Ferri |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» B. Beccaria | |
| 92. |
Which criminologist argued that there are limits both to how much torment we can endure and also how much we can inflict? |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Merton |
| C. | Grotius |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 93. |
Who argued that in time we will naturally grow accustomed to increases in severity of punishment and thus the initial increase in severity will lose its effects? |
| A. | Lombroso |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» B. Beccaria | |
| 94. |
Name the criminologist who argued that punishments should be in degree to the severity of the crime? |
| A. | Ferri |
| B. | Garofalo |
| C. | Grotius |
| D. | Beccaria |
| Answer» D. Beccaria | |
| 95. |
Who argued that treason is the worst crime because it harms the social contract? |
| A. | Merton |
| B. | Adler |
| C. | Lombroso |
| D. | Beccaria |
| Answer» D. Beccaria | |
| 96. |
Name the criminologist who suggested that crimes against property should be punished by fines? |
| A. | Merton |
| B. | Lombroso |
| C. | Beccaria |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» C. Beccaria | |
| 97. |
Who argued that the best ways to prevent crimes are to enact clear and simple laws, reward virtue and improve education? |
| A. | Sutherland |
| B. | Beccaria |
| C. | Ferri |
| D. | Lombroso |
| Answer» B. Beccaria | |
| 98. |
Three tenets served as the basis of Beccaria’s theories on criminal justice. Free will and rational manner are the two among them. Which is the third one? |
| A. | Manipulability |
| B. | Flexibility |
| C. | Rigidity |
| D. | Uneasiness |
| Answer» A. Manipulability | |
| 99. |
Who argued that because people act out of self-interest and their interests sometimes conflicts with societal laws, they commit crimes? |
| A. | Beccaria |
| B. | Sutherland |
| C. | Garofalo |
| D. | Ferri |
| Answer» A. Beccaria | |
| 100. |
According to Beccaria if the punishment outweighs the benefits of the crime, then the crime became on ............... choice. |
| A. | Logical choice |
| B. | Illogical choice |
| C. | Hard choice |
| D. | Easy choice |
| Answer» B. Illogical choice | |
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