Soc MCQ
Soc MCQ
Soc MCQ
• Robert Merton
‘Asymmetrical face, large ears, long arms, flattened nose, crispy hair, eye defect’ related to
( C) 14 years
A scientific study of the nature, extent, causes and control of criminal behavior is called as ------
Criminology
C)Criminal Anthropology
Among the following who led the Italian school of positivist criminology?
C) Lombroso
(A) Gambling
Among the following which country awards death penalty to offenders by firing squad?
(D) China
A) Social interactions.
According to Prof. Sutherland, ----- are the main causes for recidivism.
C) Situational criminals
According to -------, punishment is based on the proposition, “not to avenge crime but to prevent it”.
C) Preventive theory
According to the Indian Penal Code, how many kinds of Punishments can be awarded to an offender?
• Lombroso
crime against person predominated in the south & increased in summer & crime against property
predominated in the north & increased during the winter’ is related to
• Thermic theory
• Howard Becker
• Law
Crimes conducted over the internet or other computer network are -----
C) Cybercrimes
‘Degree of punishment should match the unfair advantage gained by the criminal…’ is related to
• Michel Davis
• Internet
C) Edwin Sutherland
• Social fact
‘Ego’is related to …
• Reality
• Fornasari
‘Eye for an Eye’ and ‘Tooth for a Tooth’ reflects which theory of punishment?
(B) Retribution
Extracting Cash or kind by using ones official position is a crime under which law?
For the same crime opinion may be different following the background of the criminal…..
• Labelling theory
• Deviant
A) Heredity
B) B) Mental disorder
C) C) Alcoholism
D) D) All the above
‘Have abandoned the cultural goal, but still use legitimate means’…..is related to
• Ritualism
• Problem solving
‘Id’ is related to
• Individual’s instinct
In India, Probation is granted under which laws? I. Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act II. Juvenile Justice
Act III. Protection of Human Rights Act IV. Probation of offender Act Find the correct combination using
the codes given below :
In the Vishakha’s case, the Supreme Court has laid down the guidelines related to
In Ramamurthy vs. State of Karnataka the Supreme Court of India has given direction for.
(B) Prison reforms
In D.K. Basu case the Supreme Court has laid down guidelines regarding
Jail should be more humane & law should not distinguish between rich & poor’…
• Beccaria
‘Laws should be judged by their propensity to afford the greater happiness shared by the greatest
number’…..
• Becarria
Italy
• Bentham
• Bentham
Major concern in determining the crime is ‘social audience’ ..is related to..
• Labelling theory
B) Terrorist
• Herbert Morris
Psychogenic theory
(B) Use different supervision technique but are administered by the same office
(D) Are distinctly different forms of community correction administered by different authorities
(A) National Crime Records Bureau. (D) National Institute of Social Defence.
Probation is
Retreatism is…
• Ulrich Beckh
A) M’Naghten
‘Super-Ego’ ..
• Individual’s conscience
• Montesquieu
• Durkheim
• Urban studies
• Fatalistic suicide
• Erving Goffman
Suicide in high group involvement is..
• Altruistic suicide
Stigimatization is related to ..
• Erving Goffman
• Sigmund Freud
The spirit of parole or pre-mature release is ________. (i) Reformation and Rehabilitation (ii) Saving for
public exchequer (iii) Utilization of family and community resources (iv) Concession to the wrong-doer
Find the correct combination using the codes given below:
The killing of a family member, due to the belief of the perpetrator that the victim has brought bad
name to the family or community is called
D) Actus Reus
D) New Delhi
The word “Terrorism” comes from the Latin word -------- which means fear.
A) Tersere
(D) Mendelsohn
The term “Criminology” is derived from the combination of two Latin words ------- ---
r B) Criminal
The process whereby newly admitted prisoners come to accept prison lifestyles and sometimes criminal
values is called _______.
(D) Prisonization
The term “Probation” is derived from the Latin word ------ which means to test or to prove.
B) To test or to prove
The popularity of open prison system has been a sharp decline in recent years because of ---
D) Bentham
• Hedonistic principle
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act was passed in ----
A) 2019
Upto what age of boys and girls is the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, applicable?
What type of crime is committed by a physician or a doctor who prescribes unnecessarily diagnostic
tests?
What is ‘phishing’?
Who defined crime as the intentional Act in violation of the criminal law committed without any defense
or excuse and penalized by the state
A) Paul Tappan
A) Raffaele Garofalo
C) Lombroso
C) Lombroso
C) Cohen
A) Sigmund Freud
Which of the following are the legal initiatives against female foeticide in India
A) To enable the inmate to maintain continuity with his family life and deal with family life and
deal with family matters.
B)To save the inmate from the evil effects of continuous prison life
(B) Cyber-pornography
B) Hacking
A) Cyber Terrorism
B) B) Narco Terrorism
C) C) Nuclear Terrorism
D) D) All of the above
Which one of the following cases is not related with prison problems in India?
C) To reward good behavior and to provide dependable permanent labour for public works
B) Effect on tourism
Which among the following Committees was constituted exclusively for examining the issues connected
to women prisoners in India?
(B) Gambling
A) heredity
b) bio-physical factors
C) Mental illness
A) Classical school
B) Phishing
Which country among the following does not award death penalty to offenders?
• Garfalo
• Ferri
• Conformity
----------- concerns with the various aspects of punishment and penal policies.
C)Penology
-------------is the act of publishing of defamatory material against another person with the help of
computers or internet.
A) Cyber Defamation
. ------- is to take control of an aircraft or other vehicle during a journey, especially using violence.
B) Hijacking
------ is the unlawful use of force against persons or property to intimidate the government, civilian
population for the furtherance of social or political objectives.
B) Terrorism
---------- is a process by which the State inflicts some pain to the persons or property of a person who is
found guilty of crime.
C) Punishment
--------- means the commission of crime by habitual offenders.
B) Recidivism
………..is the use of punishment to prevent the offender from repeating his offence …..’
• Deterrent theory
‘…thou art to be hanged not for having stolen a horse, but in order that other horses may not be
stolen’…….
• Deterrent theory
• Bentham
• Delinquent subculture
Match the pairs - List – II: List – I List – II (a) Justice A.N. Mulla (i) National Police Commission (b)
Mr.DharmVira (ii) Committee on Criminal Justice Reforms (c) Justice Krishna Iyer (iii) All India Committee
on Prison Reforms (d) Justice V.S. Malimath (iv) Committee on Women Prisoners Codes: (a) (b) (c) (d)