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CRIMINOLOGY MCQs
1. Pre-sentence report is required to release an offender on
(A) Parole
(B) Premature release
(C) Probation
(D) Bail
Ans: C
2. How many High Courts are there in India?
(A) 10 to 15
(B) 15 to 20
(C) 20 to 25
(D) 25 to 30
Ans: C
3. Which treatise is Kautilya credited to have authored?
(A) Dharmashashtra
(B) Manusmriti
(C) Arthshashtra
(D) Ayurvigyan
Ans: C
4. Which among the following is an economic offence?
(A) Auto theft
(B) Robbery
(C) Embezzlement
(D) Money laundering
Ans: D
5. Who has postulated the concept of ‘Born Criminal’?
(A) Godard
(B) Lombroso
(C) Garofalo
(D) Darwin
Ans: B
6. Who has linked levels of intelligence with juvenile delinquency?
(A) Cattell
(B) Allport
(C) Binet
(D) Eysenck
Ans: B
7. Which theory has been propounded by Robert Merton?
(A) Class conflict
(B) Anomie theory
(C) Culture conflict
(D) Differential opportunity theory
Ans: B
8. What does the term Kleptomania mean?
(A) Urge to hurt others
(B) Urge for criminal conspiracy
(C) Urge for sexual gratification
(D) Urge of commit theft
Ans: D
9. The term ‘Zero Tolerance’ is related to
(A) Policing
(B) Treatment of Drug addicts
(C) Corruption
(D) Night Patrolling
Ans: A
10. What is a Hypothesis?
(A) Proposition
(B) Presumption
(C) Postulate
(D) All the above
Ans: D
11. Which software among the following is good for research - data analysis?
(A) MS PowerPoint
(B) Adobe Reader
(C) Tally
(D) MS Excel
Ans: D
12. Which statistical measure brings out the dispersion of a variable in a statistical series?
(A) Rank Correlation
(B) Standard Deviation
(C) Arithmetic Mean
(D) Chi-square
Ans: B
13. Which country is known for the production of Cocaine?
(A) Algeria
(B) Colombia
(C) Iran
(D) Vietnam
Ans: B
14. Among the following which psychotropic substance is an opium derivative?
(A) Ganja
(B) Brandy
(C) Heroin
(D) Cocain
Ans: C
15. According to official figures, which state in India has the lowest rate of crime against Schedule Castes?
(A) Arunachal Pradesh
(B) Bihar
(C) Chhattisgarh
(D) Gujarat
Ans: A
16. How many members does a Child Welfare Committee under the J.J. Act have?
(A) Three members
(B) Four members
(C) Five members
(D) Six members
Ans: C
17. After enquiry, Juvenile Justice Board can pass orders regarding the juvenile for
(A) Admonition
(B) Probation
(C) Term in Special Home
(D) Any of the above
Ans: D
18. For dealing with children, what police organisation is specified under the J.J. Act?
(A) Juvenile Aid Police Unit
(B) Juvenile Activity Club
(C) Special Juvenile Police Unit
(D) Juvenile Aid Bureau
Ans: C
19. In India, what punishment can be awarded to those below eighteen years of age and found guilty of homicide?
(A) Detention for three years
(B) Imprisonment of ten years
(C) Life imprisonment
(D) Death penalty
Ans: A
20. In the 19th century, which country used to burn to death those suspected to practice witchcraft?
(A) Brazil
(B) South Africa
(C) France
(D) Great Britain
Ans: D
21. In which state was first open-air camp or jail set up in India?
(A) Assam
(B) Gujarat
(C) Madhya Pradesh
(D) Uttar Pradesh
Ans: D
22. Which country first started probation to offenders?
(A) Great Britain
(B) France
(C) Australia
(D) United States of America
Ans: D
23. Who is competent to commute death penalty to life imprisonment?
(A) Director General of Prisoners
(B) Chief Minister
(C) Prime Minister
(D) President of India
Ans: D
24. Borstal School is meant for
(A) Delinquents below 10 years
(B) Adolescent offenders
(C) Female offenders
(D) Adult offenders
Ans: B
25. Which officer has to record a confession of a person if it is to be of evidentiary value?
(A) Investigating Officer
(B) Gazetted Officer
(C) Magistrate
(D) Deputy Commissioner
Ans: C
26. Who has authored the book, ‘The Criminal and his Victim’?
(A) Enrico Ferri
(B) Charles Goring
(C) Glueck
(D) Von Hentig
Ans: D
27. The term primary deviance is used in the
(A) Labelling Theory
(B) Social Learning Theory
(C) Containment Theory
(D) Anomie Theory
Ans: A
28. Under which law are crime victims belonging to Scheduled Castes and Tribes provided compensation by government?
(A) Indian Penal Code
(B) Protection of Civil Rights Act
(C) SC/ST (Prevention of the Atrocities) Act
(D) Evidence Act
Ans: C
29. Broadly speaking, criminology, as a science deals with
(A) The study of crime
(B) The study of those who commit crime
(C) The study of penal systems
(D) All of the above
Ans: D
30. Assertion (A): There is no international consensus as to what constitution ‘crime’, in the International arena.
Reason (R): Security international co-operation against particular states is often very difficult to achieve. Nations such as India, China among others are not even signatories to the International Criminal Court.
Codes:
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Ans: B
31. Which of the following is a form of Cyber Crime?
(A) Software
(B) Hacking
(C) Hardware
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
32. Which of the following is not a counter-terrorism policy?
(A) Increase physical security
(B) To encourage terrorism
(C) To increase powers of security forces
(D) To increase procedural security
Ans: B
33. Which of the following is not an original crime?
(A) Child Trafficking
(B) Smuggling of Narcotic Drugs
(C) Organ Trafficking
(D) Riot
Ans: D
34. Production, distribution and role of illicit drugs is called
(A) Drug trafficking
(B) Drug dependence
(C) Alcohol use
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
35. Which among the following is not a technique of neutralization?
(A) Denial of responsibility
(B) Denial of injury
(C) Denial of the victim
(D) Denial of involvement
Ans: D
36. Who is the author of the book ‘The Culture of Control’?
(A) David Garland
(B) Carls Smart
(C) John Braithwaite
(D) Grabosky
Ans: B
37. Which of the following is/are experienced by victims of crime?
(A) Physical loss
(B) Psychological impact
(C) Financial Impact
(D) All of the above
Ans: D
38. Which among the following is related to laws on obscenity and indecency?
(A) Phising
(B) Cyber-pornography
(C) Nigerian scams
(D) Stalking
Ans: B
39. Criminologists refer to “hidden crimes” as
(A) Crimes in jungles
(B) Crimes in slums
(C) Unreported crimes
(D) Female infanticide
Ans: C
40. Which of the following does the definition of crime include?
(A) Act of Commission
(B) Criminal Intention
(C) Act of Omission
(D) All of the above
Ans: D
41. Who among the following is related to situational crime prevention?
(A) Donald Clerk
(B) Ronald Clark
(C) John Cohen
(D) Albert Cohen
Ans: B
42. Kobe police system is operational in which country
(A) Korea
(B) China
(C) Japan
(D) Philippines
Ans: C
43. Who among the following is not a Radical Criminologist?
(A) Richard Quinney
(B) William Chambliss
(C) Taylor
(D) Sellin
Ans: D
44. The Philosophy of Utilitarianism is concerned with
(A) Positive school of criminology
(B) Radical school of criminology
(C) Chicago school of criminology
(D) Classical school of criminology
Ans: D
45. Who are the protagonists of ‘Techniques of neutralisation’ in criminology?
(A) Alison and Canter
(B) Sykes and Matza
(C) Sutherland and Cressey
(D) Aldee and Worrall
Ans: B
46. Failure to achieve goals through institutionalized means is the focus of which sociological theory?
(A) Social control theory
(B) Strain theory
(C) Subcultural theory
(D) Routine activities theory
Ans: B
47. Who authored the book “Physique and Delinquency”?
(A) Bandura and Bandura
(B) Glueck and Glueck
(C) Gatrell and Hadden
(D) Cloward and Ohlin
Ans: B
48. Who is the author of the book “Crime and Everyday Life”?
(A) Ferguson
(B) Fattah
(C) Felson
(D) Ferraro
Ans: C
49. Probation is
(A) Determinate sentencing
(B) Indeterminate sentencing
(C) Suspended sentencing
(D) Custodial sentencing
Ans: C
50. How many types of subcultures have been identified by Cloward and Ohlin to explain delinquent gangs?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
Ans: B
(A) Parole
(B) Premature release
(C) Probation
(D) Bail
Ans: C
2. How many High Courts are there in India?
(A) 10 to 15
(B) 15 to 20
(C) 20 to 25
(D) 25 to 30
Ans: C
3. Which treatise is Kautilya credited to have authored?
(A) Dharmashashtra
(B) Manusmriti
(C) Arthshashtra
(D) Ayurvigyan
Ans: C
4. Which among the following is an economic offence?
(A) Auto theft
(B) Robbery
(C) Embezzlement
(D) Money laundering
Ans: D
5. Who has postulated the concept of ‘Born Criminal’?
(A) Godard
(B) Lombroso
(C) Garofalo
(D) Darwin
Ans: B
6. Who has linked levels of intelligence with juvenile delinquency?
(A) Cattell
(B) Allport
(C) Binet
(D) Eysenck
Ans: B
7. Which theory has been propounded by Robert Merton?
(A) Class conflict
(B) Anomie theory
(C) Culture conflict
(D) Differential opportunity theory
Ans: B
8. What does the term Kleptomania mean?
(A) Urge to hurt others
(B) Urge for criminal conspiracy
(C) Urge for sexual gratification
(D) Urge of commit theft
Ans: D
9. The term ‘Zero Tolerance’ is related to
(A) Policing
(B) Treatment of Drug addicts
(C) Corruption
(D) Night Patrolling
Ans: A
10. What is a Hypothesis?
(A) Proposition
(B) Presumption
(C) Postulate
(D) All the above
Ans: D
11. Which software among the following is good for research - data analysis?
(A) MS PowerPoint
(B) Adobe Reader
(C) Tally
(D) MS Excel
Ans: D
12. Which statistical measure brings out the dispersion of a variable in a statistical series?
(A) Rank Correlation
(B) Standard Deviation
(C) Arithmetic Mean
(D) Chi-square
Ans: B
13. Which country is known for the production of Cocaine?
(A) Algeria
(B) Colombia
(C) Iran
(D) Vietnam
Ans: B
14. Among the following which psychotropic substance is an opium derivative?
(A) Ganja
(B) Brandy
(C) Heroin
(D) Cocain
Ans: C
15. According to official figures, which state in India has the lowest rate of crime against Schedule Castes?
(A) Arunachal Pradesh
(B) Bihar
(C) Chhattisgarh
(D) Gujarat
Ans: A
16. How many members does a Child Welfare Committee under the J.J. Act have?
(A) Three members
(B) Four members
(C) Five members
(D) Six members
Ans: C
17. After enquiry, Juvenile Justice Board can pass orders regarding the juvenile for
(A) Admonition
(B) Probation
(C) Term in Special Home
(D) Any of the above
Ans: D
18. For dealing with children, what police organisation is specified under the J.J. Act?
(A) Juvenile Aid Police Unit
(B) Juvenile Activity Club
(C) Special Juvenile Police Unit
(D) Juvenile Aid Bureau
Ans: C
19. In India, what punishment can be awarded to those below eighteen years of age and found guilty of homicide?
(A) Detention for three years
(B) Imprisonment of ten years
(C) Life imprisonment
(D) Death penalty
Ans: A
20. In the 19th century, which country used to burn to death those suspected to practice witchcraft?
(A) Brazil
(B) South Africa
(C) France
(D) Great Britain
Ans: D
21. In which state was first open-air camp or jail set up in India?
(A) Assam
(B) Gujarat
(C) Madhya Pradesh
(D) Uttar Pradesh
Ans: D
22. Which country first started probation to offenders?
(A) Great Britain
(B) France
(C) Australia
(D) United States of America
Ans: D
23. Who is competent to commute death penalty to life imprisonment?
(A) Director General of Prisoners
(B) Chief Minister
(C) Prime Minister
(D) President of India
Ans: D
24. Borstal School is meant for
(A) Delinquents below 10 years
(B) Adolescent offenders
(C) Female offenders
(D) Adult offenders
Ans: B
25. Which officer has to record a confession of a person if it is to be of evidentiary value?
(A) Investigating Officer
(B) Gazetted Officer
(C) Magistrate
(D) Deputy Commissioner
Ans: C
26. Who has authored the book, ‘The Criminal and his Victim’?
(A) Enrico Ferri
(B) Charles Goring
(C) Glueck
(D) Von Hentig
Ans: D
27. The term primary deviance is used in the
(A) Labelling Theory
(B) Social Learning Theory
(C) Containment Theory
(D) Anomie Theory
Ans: A
28. Under which law are crime victims belonging to Scheduled Castes and Tribes provided compensation by government?
(A) Indian Penal Code
(B) Protection of Civil Rights Act
(C) SC/ST (Prevention of the Atrocities) Act
(D) Evidence Act
Ans: C
29. Broadly speaking, criminology, as a science deals with
(A) The study of crime
(B) The study of those who commit crime
(C) The study of penal systems
(D) All of the above
Ans: D
30. Assertion (A): There is no international consensus as to what constitution ‘crime’, in the International arena.
Reason (R): Security international co-operation against particular states is often very difficult to achieve. Nations such as India, China among others are not even signatories to the International Criminal Court.
Codes:
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Ans: B
31. Which of the following is a form of Cyber Crime?
(A) Software
(B) Hacking
(C) Hardware
(D) None of the above
Ans: B
32. Which of the following is not a counter-terrorism policy?
(A) Increase physical security
(B) To encourage terrorism
(C) To increase powers of security forces
(D) To increase procedural security
Ans: B
33. Which of the following is not an original crime?
(A) Child Trafficking
(B) Smuggling of Narcotic Drugs
(C) Organ Trafficking
(D) Riot
Ans: D
34. Production, distribution and role of illicit drugs is called
(A) Drug trafficking
(B) Drug dependence
(C) Alcohol use
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
35. Which among the following is not a technique of neutralization?
(A) Denial of responsibility
(B) Denial of injury
(C) Denial of the victim
(D) Denial of involvement
Ans: D
36. Who is the author of the book ‘The Culture of Control’?
(A) David Garland
(B) Carls Smart
(C) John Braithwaite
(D) Grabosky
Ans: B
37. Which of the following is/are experienced by victims of crime?
(A) Physical loss
(B) Psychological impact
(C) Financial Impact
(D) All of the above
Ans: D
38. Which among the following is related to laws on obscenity and indecency?
(A) Phising
(B) Cyber-pornography
(C) Nigerian scams
(D) Stalking
Ans: B
39. Criminologists refer to “hidden crimes” as
(A) Crimes in jungles
(B) Crimes in slums
(C) Unreported crimes
(D) Female infanticide
Ans: C
40. Which of the following does the definition of crime include?
(A) Act of Commission
(B) Criminal Intention
(C) Act of Omission
(D) All of the above
Ans: D
41. Who among the following is related to situational crime prevention?
(A) Donald Clerk
(B) Ronald Clark
(C) John Cohen
(D) Albert Cohen
Ans: B
42. Kobe police system is operational in which country
(A) Korea
(B) China
(C) Japan
(D) Philippines
Ans: C
43. Who among the following is not a Radical Criminologist?
(A) Richard Quinney
(B) William Chambliss
(C) Taylor
(D) Sellin
Ans: D
44. The Philosophy of Utilitarianism is concerned with
(A) Positive school of criminology
(B) Radical school of criminology
(C) Chicago school of criminology
(D) Classical school of criminology
Ans: D
45. Who are the protagonists of ‘Techniques of neutralisation’ in criminology?
(A) Alison and Canter
(B) Sykes and Matza
(C) Sutherland and Cressey
(D) Aldee and Worrall
Ans: B
46. Failure to achieve goals through institutionalized means is the focus of which sociological theory?
(A) Social control theory
(B) Strain theory
(C) Subcultural theory
(D) Routine activities theory
Ans: B
47. Who authored the book “Physique and Delinquency”?
(A) Bandura and Bandura
(B) Glueck and Glueck
(C) Gatrell and Hadden
(D) Cloward and Ohlin
Ans: B
48. Who is the author of the book “Crime and Everyday Life”?
(A) Ferguson
(B) Fattah
(C) Felson
(D) Ferraro
Ans: C
49. Probation is
(A) Determinate sentencing
(B) Indeterminate sentencing
(C) Suspended sentencing
(D) Custodial sentencing
Ans: C
50. How many types of subcultures have been identified by Cloward and Ohlin to explain delinquent gangs?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five
Ans: B
51. Who among the following is not empowered to conduct ‘Summary Trials’ ?
(A) Chief Judicial Magistrate
(B) Metropolitan Magistrate
(C) District Magistrate
(D) Additional Session Judge
Ans: C
52. ‘In camera trials’ are permitted in
(A) Murder cases
(B) NDPS cases
(C) Rape cases
(D) All the above
Ans: C
53. Which among the following statute gives the right to the victim to prefer an appeal against any adverse order passed by the trial court ?
(A) Code of Criminal Procedure
(B) The Unlawful Prevention of Activities Act
(C) The Indian Penal Code
(D) All the above
Ans: A
54. Writ of Habeas Corpus requires
(A) Produce the person in the Police Station
(B) Produce the person in the Jail
(C) Produce the person in the Court
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
55. Match the List-I with List-II.
List-I List-II
(a) Anomic I. Becker
(b) Differential Abolition Theory II. Cloward and Ohlin
(c) Labelling Theory III. Merton
(d) Differential Opportunity Theory IV. Sutherland
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) IV III I II
(B) I III II IV
(C) III IV I II
(D) IV I III II
Ans: C
56. Law of ‘Criminal Saturation’ as enunciated by
(A) Charles Soring
(B) S. A. Hooten
(C) Ensico Ferri
(D) Gordon
Ans: C
57. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?
(A) Subculture Theory – Ausbin T. Turk
(B) Drift Theory – Frank Tannebaum
(C) Classical School – William. J. Chambliss
(D) Female Criminology – Freda Adler
Ans: D
58. An administrative action to remove a person from parole status in response to a violation of conditions is called
(A) Split sentence
(B) Probation revocation
(C) Parole revocation
(D) Parole restitution
Ans: C
59. Repetition of criminal behaviour is called
(A) Restitution
(B) Retribution
(C) Recidivism
(D) Reintesation
Ans: C
60. A State confinement facility having custodial authority over adults sentenced to confinement is called
(A) Observation Home
(B) Juvenile Justice Board
(C) Prison
(D) Special Home
Ans: C
61. The values and behavioural patterns characteristics of prison inmates is called
(A) Remission
(B) Prison population
(C) Prisonization
(D) Prison Sub-culture
Ans: D
62. The political alliance between terrorist organizations and drugsupplying cartels is called
(A) Political Nexus
(B) Drug Nexus
(C) Terrorist Nexus
(D) Narco Terrorism
Ans: D
63. One who studies crime and criminal Justice on a Cross-National level is called
(A) Procutorate
(B) Procurate
(C) Ethno Centricism
(D) Comparative criminologist
Ans: D
64. Fraudulent use of credit card is called
(A) Cheating
(B) White collar crime
(C) Embezzlement
(D) Cyber crime
Ans: D
65. The authorized seizure of money negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value is called
(A) Interdiction
(B) Money laundering
(C) Forfeiture of property
(D) Legalization
Ans: C
66. What official committee is associated with the issue of corruption in India ?
(A) Santhanam Committee
(B) Malimath Committee
(C) A. N. Mulla Committee
(D) Krishna Iyer Committee
Ans: A
67. What does the term ‘Kleptomania’ stand for
(A) Quarrelsome behaviour
(B) Stealing
(C) Sexual misbehaviour
(D) Repressing others
Ans: B
68. Till what age can a woman prisoner keep her child, with her in the prison ?
(A) Upto 5 years
(B) Upto 7 years
(C) Upto 9 years
(D) Upto 11 years
Ans: B
69. Which of the following statistical technique can be used to find the relationship between two continuous variables ?
(A) Correlation
(B) Standard deviation
(C) Median
(D) Regression
Ans: A
70. Match items of List-I with items of List-II.
List-I List-II
(I) Relationship between two variables a. Interval scale
(II) Experimental Research b. Convergent validity
(III) Scale c. Correlation
(IV) Validity d. Randomized two-group design
Codes :
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) c d a b
(B) a b c d
(C) d b c a
(D) b d c a
Ans: A
71. A construct that is evaluated by a group of experts, who look at a measuring technique and decide whether it measures what its name suggests is called
(A) Correlation
(B) Face validity
(C) Standard Deviation
(D) Reliability
Ans: B
72. The Jurisdiction of a Court is
(A) the geographic area it covers
(B) the subject matter it deals with
(C) its place in the hierarchy of the court system
(D) all of the above
Ans: D
73. Which one of the following is not a Judicial decision option in a case of child in conflict with law ?
(A) Admonition
(B) Committee to an Institution
(C) Probation
(D) Life imprisonment
Ans: D
74. Which one of the following is not a victim Assistance Programme ?
(A) Crisis intervention
(B) Follow up of case
(C) Counselling
(D) Bail
Ans: D
75. Arrange the following in the sequence in which they proceed in the Criminal Justice System. Use the codes given below :
I. Sentencing
II. Chargesheet
III. FIR
IV. Admission to Jail
Codes :
(A) II, III, IV, I
(B) I, II, III, IV
(C) III, II, I, IV
(D) IV, III, II, I
Ans: C
76. Father of scientific criminology is
(A) Cesare Beccaria
(B) Jeremy Bentham
(C) Cesare Lombroso
(D) Enrico Ferri
Ans: A
77. Match the List-I with List-II
List – I List – II
(a) Hedonism I. Sutherland
(b) White collar crime II. Sigmund freud
(c) Atavism III. Cesare Beccaria
(d) Oedipus Complex IV. Lombroso
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) III I IV II
(B) I II III IV
(C) IV III I II
(D) I III II IV
Ans: A
78. The error in the assumption that there is necessarily a distinctive difference between two groups : Criminals and non-criminals is called:
(A) Dark figure
(B) Normative fallacy
(C) Dualistic fallacy
(D) Moralistic fallacy
Ans: C
79. Which of the following elements of crime mean ‘guilty mind’?
(A) Concurrence
(B) Harm
(C) Actus reus
(D) Mens Rea
Ans: D
80. A perspective on the study of criminal justice that assumes that the systems sub- components work together harmoniously, to achieve the social product is called ‘Justice’ is
(A) Consensus model
(B) Conflict model
(C) Civil justice
(D) Public order
Ans: A
81. A criminal Justice perspective that emphasizes on individual rights at stages of justice system is
(A) Trial model
(B) Jury model
(C) Due process model
(D) Crime control model
Ans: C
82. Serial killing is a form of
(A) Organized crime
(B) Violent crime
(C) Hate crime
(D) Property crime
Ans: B
83. The attempt to categorise, understand and predict the behavior of certain types of offenders based on behavioural clues they provide is
(A) Psychological profiling
(B) Sociological profiling
(C) Jail Profiling
(D) Reaction formation
Ans: A
84. Match the item in List-I with items in List-II.
List – I List – II
I. Frangy Joseph Gall (a) Atavism
II. Jeremy Bentham (b) Somatotypes
III. William Sheldon (c) Phrenology
IV. Cesane Lombroso (d) Hedoninstic Calculous
Code :
I II III IV
(A) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(B) (d) (c) (b) (a)
(C) (b) (c) (d) (a)
(D) (d) (b) (c) (a)
Ans: A
85. Karl Marx wrote a book entitled.
(A) Dax Vivindi
(B) Vox Vivindi
(C) Das Capital
(D) Pax Mundi
Ans: C
86. “…. Deviation and criminality are shaped by society’s larger structure of power and institutions”. Who among the following, has formulated this approach.
(A) Sutherland and Cressey
(B) Taylor, Walton and Young
(C) Sykes and Matza
(D) Barnes and Teeters
Ans: B
87. Lie Detector or polygraph is
(A) An aid to investigation officer
(B) Admissible as evidence in court
(C) Partially admissible
(D) Not admissible
Ans: A
88. Under Probation of Offenders Act, the pre-sentence report is submitted to
(A) Probation officer
(B) Police officer
(C) Judicial officer
(D) Prosecution officer
Ans: C
89. A criminal justice perspective that emphasizes on the arrest and conviction of criminal offenders is
(A) Trial model
(B) Jury model
(C) Crime control model
(D) Due process model
Ans: C
90. Among the following who has explained crime in terms of intelligence quotient (IQ) ?
(A) Allport
(B) H. J. Eysenck
(C) Sheldon
(D) Maslow
Ans: B
91. Parole or premature release is granted by which authority ?
(A) Police
(B) Court
(C) Prison officers
(D) Parole Committee/Board
Ans: D
92. 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 :
(A) I and II are correct
(B) III and IV are correct
(C) II and IV are correct
(D) I and IV are correct
Ans: C
93. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched :
(A) Child welfare committee – For children in need of care and protection
(B) Juvenile Justice Board – For children in need in care & protection
(C) Children’s Home – For children in conflict with law
(D) Special Home – For children in need of care & protection
Ans: A
94. Which is the administrative authority controlling Juvenile Justice Board ?
(A) Police Department
(B) Judicial Department
(C) Prosecution Department
(D) Social Welfare Department
Ans: D
95. What is meant by truancy ?
(A) Thrown away children
(B) Children in terrorist areas
(C) Children habitually absenting from school/home
(D) Children in conflict with law
Ans: C
96. At the community level, examples for social disorganization are
(A) Prostitution
(B) Gambling
(C) Beggary
(D) All of the above
Ans: D
97. Alcoholism means
(A) Festive drinking
(B) Occasional drinking
(C) Habitual drinking
(D) Ceremonial drinking
Ans: C
98. Which country among the following is a part of Golden Triangle ?
(A) India
(B) Burma
(C) China
(D) Russia
Ans: B
99. Which type of prisoners are admitted to open air jails ?
(A) Educated Prisoners
(B) Skilled Prisoners
(C) Prisoners who have completed a portion of their term
(D) Political prisoners
Ans: C
100. Reduction in sentence in prison administration is called
(A) Remission
(B) Parole
(C) Furlough
(D) Premature release
Ans: A
(A) Chief Judicial Magistrate
(B) Metropolitan Magistrate
(C) District Magistrate
(D) Additional Session Judge
Ans: C
52. ‘In camera trials’ are permitted in
(A) Murder cases
(B) NDPS cases
(C) Rape cases
(D) All the above
Ans: C
53. Which among the following statute gives the right to the victim to prefer an appeal against any adverse order passed by the trial court ?
(A) Code of Criminal Procedure
(B) The Unlawful Prevention of Activities Act
(C) The Indian Penal Code
(D) All the above
Ans: A
54. Writ of Habeas Corpus requires
(A) Produce the person in the Police Station
(B) Produce the person in the Jail
(C) Produce the person in the Court
(D) None of the above
Ans: C
55. Match the List-I with List-II.
List-I List-II
(a) Anomic I. Becker
(b) Differential Abolition Theory II. Cloward and Ohlin
(c) Labelling Theory III. Merton
(d) Differential Opportunity Theory IV. Sutherland
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) IV III I II
(B) I III II IV
(C) III IV I II
(D) IV I III II
Ans: C
56. Law of ‘Criminal Saturation’ as enunciated by
(A) Charles Soring
(B) S. A. Hooten
(C) Ensico Ferri
(D) Gordon
Ans: C
57. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?
(A) Subculture Theory – Ausbin T. Turk
(B) Drift Theory – Frank Tannebaum
(C) Classical School – William. J. Chambliss
(D) Female Criminology – Freda Adler
Ans: D
58. An administrative action to remove a person from parole status in response to a violation of conditions is called
(A) Split sentence
(B) Probation revocation
(C) Parole revocation
(D) Parole restitution
Ans: C
59. Repetition of criminal behaviour is called
(A) Restitution
(B) Retribution
(C) Recidivism
(D) Reintesation
Ans: C
60. A State confinement facility having custodial authority over adults sentenced to confinement is called
(A) Observation Home
(B) Juvenile Justice Board
(C) Prison
(D) Special Home
Ans: C
61. The values and behavioural patterns characteristics of prison inmates is called
(A) Remission
(B) Prison population
(C) Prisonization
(D) Prison Sub-culture
Ans: D
62. The political alliance between terrorist organizations and drugsupplying cartels is called
(A) Political Nexus
(B) Drug Nexus
(C) Terrorist Nexus
(D) Narco Terrorism
Ans: D
63. One who studies crime and criminal Justice on a Cross-National level is called
(A) Procutorate
(B) Procurate
(C) Ethno Centricism
(D) Comparative criminologist
Ans: D
64. Fraudulent use of credit card is called
(A) Cheating
(B) White collar crime
(C) Embezzlement
(D) Cyber crime
Ans: D
65. The authorized seizure of money negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value is called
(A) Interdiction
(B) Money laundering
(C) Forfeiture of property
(D) Legalization
Ans: C
66. What official committee is associated with the issue of corruption in India ?
(A) Santhanam Committee
(B) Malimath Committee
(C) A. N. Mulla Committee
(D) Krishna Iyer Committee
Ans: A
67. What does the term ‘Kleptomania’ stand for
(A) Quarrelsome behaviour
(B) Stealing
(C) Sexual misbehaviour
(D) Repressing others
Ans: B
68. Till what age can a woman prisoner keep her child, with her in the prison ?
(A) Upto 5 years
(B) Upto 7 years
(C) Upto 9 years
(D) Upto 11 years
Ans: B
69. Which of the following statistical technique can be used to find the relationship between two continuous variables ?
(A) Correlation
(B) Standard deviation
(C) Median
(D) Regression
Ans: A
70. Match items of List-I with items of List-II.
List-I List-II
(I) Relationship between two variables a. Interval scale
(II) Experimental Research b. Convergent validity
(III) Scale c. Correlation
(IV) Validity d. Randomized two-group design
Codes :
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) c d a b
(B) a b c d
(C) d b c a
(D) b d c a
Ans: A
71. A construct that is evaluated by a group of experts, who look at a measuring technique and decide whether it measures what its name suggests is called
(A) Correlation
(B) Face validity
(C) Standard Deviation
(D) Reliability
Ans: B
72. The Jurisdiction of a Court is
(A) the geographic area it covers
(B) the subject matter it deals with
(C) its place in the hierarchy of the court system
(D) all of the above
Ans: D
73. Which one of the following is not a Judicial decision option in a case of child in conflict with law ?
(A) Admonition
(B) Committee to an Institution
(C) Probation
(D) Life imprisonment
Ans: D
74. Which one of the following is not a victim Assistance Programme ?
(A) Crisis intervention
(B) Follow up of case
(C) Counselling
(D) Bail
Ans: D
75. Arrange the following in the sequence in which they proceed in the Criminal Justice System. Use the codes given below :
I. Sentencing
II. Chargesheet
III. FIR
IV. Admission to Jail
Codes :
(A) II, III, IV, I
(B) I, II, III, IV
(C) III, II, I, IV
(D) IV, III, II, I
Ans: C
76. Father of scientific criminology is
(A) Cesare Beccaria
(B) Jeremy Bentham
(C) Cesare Lombroso
(D) Enrico Ferri
Ans: A
77. Match the List-I with List-II
List – I List – II
(a) Hedonism I. Sutherland
(b) White collar crime II. Sigmund freud
(c) Atavism III. Cesare Beccaria
(d) Oedipus Complex IV. Lombroso
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) III I IV II
(B) I II III IV
(C) IV III I II
(D) I III II IV
Ans: A
78. The error in the assumption that there is necessarily a distinctive difference between two groups : Criminals and non-criminals is called:
(A) Dark figure
(B) Normative fallacy
(C) Dualistic fallacy
(D) Moralistic fallacy
Ans: C
79. Which of the following elements of crime mean ‘guilty mind’?
(A) Concurrence
(B) Harm
(C) Actus reus
(D) Mens Rea
Ans: D
80. A perspective on the study of criminal justice that assumes that the systems sub- components work together harmoniously, to achieve the social product is called ‘Justice’ is
(A) Consensus model
(B) Conflict model
(C) Civil justice
(D) Public order
Ans: A
81. A criminal Justice perspective that emphasizes on individual rights at stages of justice system is
(A) Trial model
(B) Jury model
(C) Due process model
(D) Crime control model
Ans: C
82. Serial killing is a form of
(A) Organized crime
(B) Violent crime
(C) Hate crime
(D) Property crime
Ans: B
83. The attempt to categorise, understand and predict the behavior of certain types of offenders based on behavioural clues they provide is
(A) Psychological profiling
(B) Sociological profiling
(C) Jail Profiling
(D) Reaction formation
Ans: A
84. Match the item in List-I with items in List-II.
List – I List – II
I. Frangy Joseph Gall (a) Atavism
II. Jeremy Bentham (b) Somatotypes
III. William Sheldon (c) Phrenology
IV. Cesane Lombroso (d) Hedoninstic Calculous
Code :
I II III IV
(A) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(B) (d) (c) (b) (a)
(C) (b) (c) (d) (a)
(D) (d) (b) (c) (a)
Ans: A
85. Karl Marx wrote a book entitled.
(A) Dax Vivindi
(B) Vox Vivindi
(C) Das Capital
(D) Pax Mundi
Ans: C
86. “…. Deviation and criminality are shaped by society’s larger structure of power and institutions”. Who among the following, has formulated this approach.
(A) Sutherland and Cressey
(B) Taylor, Walton and Young
(C) Sykes and Matza
(D) Barnes and Teeters
Ans: B
87. Lie Detector or polygraph is
(A) An aid to investigation officer
(B) Admissible as evidence in court
(C) Partially admissible
(D) Not admissible
Ans: A
88. Under Probation of Offenders Act, the pre-sentence report is submitted to
(A) Probation officer
(B) Police officer
(C) Judicial officer
(D) Prosecution officer
Ans: C
89. A criminal justice perspective that emphasizes on the arrest and conviction of criminal offenders is
(A) Trial model
(B) Jury model
(C) Crime control model
(D) Due process model
Ans: C
90. Among the following who has explained crime in terms of intelligence quotient (IQ) ?
(A) Allport
(B) H. J. Eysenck
(C) Sheldon
(D) Maslow
Ans: B
91. Parole or premature release is granted by which authority ?
(A) Police
(B) Court
(C) Prison officers
(D) Parole Committee/Board
Ans: D
92. 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 :
(A) I and II are correct
(B) III and IV are correct
(C) II and IV are correct
(D) I and IV are correct
Ans: C
93. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched :
(A) Child welfare committee – For children in need of care and protection
(B) Juvenile Justice Board – For children in need in care & protection
(C) Children’s Home – For children in conflict with law
(D) Special Home – For children in need of care & protection
Ans: A
94. Which is the administrative authority controlling Juvenile Justice Board ?
(A) Police Department
(B) Judicial Department
(C) Prosecution Department
(D) Social Welfare Department
Ans: D
95. What is meant by truancy ?
(A) Thrown away children
(B) Children in terrorist areas
(C) Children habitually absenting from school/home
(D) Children in conflict with law
Ans: C
96. At the community level, examples for social disorganization are
(A) Prostitution
(B) Gambling
(C) Beggary
(D) All of the above
Ans: D
97. Alcoholism means
(A) Festive drinking
(B) Occasional drinking
(C) Habitual drinking
(D) Ceremonial drinking
Ans: C
98. Which country among the following is a part of Golden Triangle ?
(A) India
(B) Burma
(C) China
(D) Russia
Ans: B
99. Which type of prisoners are admitted to open air jails ?
(A) Educated Prisoners
(B) Skilled Prisoners
(C) Prisoners who have completed a portion of their term
(D) Political prisoners
Ans: C
100. Reduction in sentence in prison administration is called
(A) Remission
(B) Parole
(C) Furlough
(D) Premature release
Ans: A