CRIMINOLOGY
Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions are compulsory.
1. White collar crimes are committed by which type of persons ?
(A) Politicians
(B) Professionals
(C) Office workers
(D) Industrial workers
2. Statutory crimes are referred to as
(A) Mala inse
(B) Mala prohibitum
(C) Actus reus
(D) Mens rea
3. Among the following which state in India is known to have insurgency ?
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Kerala
(C) Jharkhand
(D) Rajasthan
4. Which among the following thinkers is linked with the problem of population explosion ?
(A) Malthus
(B) Bentham
(C) Augustus
(D) Sutherland
5. Who has used the term ‘organic inferiority’ being the root cause of criminal behaviour ?
(A) Glueck
(B) Krestschmer
(C) Hooten
(D) Brown
6. Who has propounded ‘social learning theory’ in personality development ?
(A) Tarde
(B) Durkheim
(C) Sellin
(D) Bondura
7. Who is the author of the book Outsiders ?
(A) Turk
(B) Becker
(C) Quinney
(D) Sykes
8. What does the term masochism mean to drive pleasure ?
(A) from amassing wealth
(B) by inflicting pain oneself
(C) from gaining popularity
(D) by inflicting pain on others
9. In whose functioning does polygraph contribute ?
(A) In police functioning
(B) In court functioning
(C) In probation functioning
(D) In jail functioning
10. What does the term ‘Sadism’ mean ? To derive pleasure
(A) from possessing valuables
(B) by inflicting pain on others
(C) from popularity in public
(D) by inflicting pain on oneself
11. To examine the relationship between ‘Fine’ in traffic violating and improvement in traffic discipline, which type of study would you design ?
(A) Exploratory study
(B) Formulative study
(C) Descriptive study
(D) Experimental study
12. Among the following who has evolved the method of ‘summated rating scales ?
(A) Likert
(B) Osgood
(C) Thurston
(D) Bogardous
13. The measure which brings out the amount of charge in a dependent variable with charge in the independent variable is called
(A) Correlation
(B) Association
(C) Regression
(D) Deviation
14. Among the following, which intoxicant is banned in India ?
(A) Caffeine
(B) Charas
(C) Nicotine
(D) Brandy
15. According to official figures, which state in India has the lowest rates of crime against women ?
(A) Nagaland
(B) Tripura
(C) Bihar
(D) Uttar Pradesh
16. Which country is a part of the ‘Golden Triangle’ known for the smuggling of narcotics ?
(A) Argentina
(B) Nigeria
(C) Philippines
(D) Thailand
17. Which country is a part of the ‘Golden Crescent’ known for the smuggling of narcotics ?
(A) Argentina
(B) Pakistan
(C) Nigeria
(D) Malaysia
18. Who has propounded the concept of ‘Altruistic Suicide’ ?
(A) Durkheim
(B) Merton
(C) Sellin
(D) Sutherland
19. What child right have been envisaged by the U.N. convention on the Rights of the Child ?
(A) Right to Survival and Protection
(B) Right to Development
(C) Right to Participation
(D) All of the above
20. How many members does a Juvenile Justice Board have ?
(A) Three members
(B) Four members
(C) Five members
(D) Six members
21. Which disposal procedures is/are available for ‘children in need of care and protection’ ?
(A) Adoption
(B) Foster care
(C) Sponsorship
(D) All the above three
22. What is ‘Poetic Punishment’ ?
(A) Sentence of Fine
(B) Admonition
(C) Corporal punishment
(D) Community service
23. Which country provides for death penalty through firing squad ?
(A) United States of America
(B) People’s Republic of China
(C) Malaysia
(D) Australia
24. At present, how many prisons are there in India ?
(A) between 800 and 1000
(B) between 1001 and 1200
(C) between 1201 and 1400
(D) between 1401 and 1600
25. Which among the following is a part of the correctional programme in jails ?
(A) Literacy and Education
(B) Work Programmes
(C) Remission in sentences
(D) All the three
26. Parole is granted to offenders by which authority ?
(A) Police
(B) Prosecution
(C) Court
(D) Jail Department
27. What is the responsibility of a restaurant owner whose guests subsequently suffer from food poisoning ?
(A) Moral liability
(B) Strict liability
(C) Civil liability
(D) None of the above
28. Within how much time a police officer arresting a person has to produce him before a magistrate ?
(A) Twelve hours
(B) Twenty-four hours
(C) Thirty-six hours
(D) Forty-eight hours
29. Which thinker is regarded as the protagonist of victimology theory ?
(A) Beccaria
(B) Sutherland
(C) Mendelssohn
(D) Howard
30. In the context of criminal occurrences,what is restitution ?
(A) Making good of loss by the wrong doer
(B) Relief by public authority
(C) Community support or help
(D) None of the above
31. ‘Moral Panic’ is a term associated with
(A) Lombroso
(B) Cesar Beccaria
(C) Stanley Cohen
(D) Merton
32. ‘Actus Reus’ means, which of the following :
(A) Grievous hurt
(B) Physical act
(C) Guilty mind
(D) None of the above
33. Which of the following is not a cyber crime ?
(A) Software piracy
(B) Hardware
(C) Hacking
(D) Web page defacing
34. Which of the following is not an organized crime ?
(A) Traffic Accident
(B) Arms trafficking
(C) Loan sharking
(D) Drug smuggling
35. A tool used by Criminologists to anticipate locations of criminal events and related phenomena is called
(A) Crime analysis
(B) Criminal justice analysis
(C) Crime mapping
(D) None of the above
36. Braithwaite is associated with
(A) Social bonding theory
(B) Shaming theory
(C) Sub cultural theory
(D) None of the above
37. Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) deals with
(A) Political crimes
(B) Corporate crimes
(C) Corruption of public servants
(D) Computer crimes
38. The cases of children in need of care and protection, as per juvenile justice act are dealt with by
(A) Juvenile Court
(B) Juvenile Justice Board
(C) Judicial Magistrate
(D) Child Welfare Committee
39. The committee that dealt with crimes against women is called
(A) Visakha Committee
(B) Reckless Committee
(C) Verma Committee
(D) None of the above
40. The branch of law that defines crimes and their punishment is known as
(A) Procedural law
(B) Case law
(C) Substantive law
(D) Administrative law
41. Match the List – I with List – II, using the codes given below :
42. Which of the following is illegal but is not necessarily deviant ?
(A) Incest
(B) Drug use
(C) Vandalism
(D) Phising
43. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?
(A) Rebellion – Sutherland
(B) Subculture theory – Cloward & Ohlin
(C) Classical School – Beccaria
(D) Anomie – Durkheim
44. Match the List – I with List – II, using the codes given below :
45. Minor physical and social disorder in a neighbourhood (graffiti, litter, etc.) encourages serious violent aims is called
(A) Classical theory
(B) Broken-windows theory
(C) Anomie theory
(D) None of the above
46. Assertion (A) : Chicago school is a term used to refer to a particular influential group of sociologists based at the University of Chicago.
Reason (R) : Noted for their ‘ecological’ approach to the explanation of crime in the city, Chicago school of
sociology had a profound influence on the use of ethnographic approaches to research and to development.
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
47. Assertion (A) : The essential characteristic of crime is that it is a behaviour, which is prohibited by the State as an injury to the state as well as an individual.
Reason (R) : Crime does not exist. Only acts exist, acts are often given different meanings within various social frameworks and some are crimes.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct ?
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.
48. Which of the following is/not a social goal the government expects to achieve via contemporary criminal law ?
(A) Maintenance of social order
(B) Encouraging revenge
(C) Express public opinion
(D) Deterrence of criminal behaviour
49. Arrange the following theories, as per the chronological order of their appearance using the codes given below :
i. Positive school
ii. Classical school
iii. Anomie theory
iv. Routine activity theory
Codes :
(A) ii, i, iii, iv
(B) i, ii, iii, iv
(C) iv, iii, ii, i
(D) i, iv, iii, ii
50. Which one of the following is correctly matched ?
(A) Spam – Traditional crime
(B) Hacking – Cyber crime
(C) Riot – Victimless crime
(D) Murder – Petty offence
51. Assertion (A) : Community policing is a police organisational strategy that decentralises police.
Reason (R) : Community policing seeks to be responsive to local citizen demands and to incorporate a general problemoriented approach to policing and to helping communities solve crime problems collaboratively often through partnership working.
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.
52. A system where the ‘accused’ is presumed guilty and he/she must prove his/her innocence is known as
(A) Victim Justice System
(B) Inquisitorial system
(C) Accusatory system
(D) None of the above
53. Which of the following is not within the scope of criminology ?
(A) Seriousness of crime
(B) Patterns of crime
(C) Oncological study
(D) Impact of crime
54. Which of the following is not a cyber crime ?
(A) Denial of service
(B) Hacking
(C) Phishing
(D) Hardware
55. Which of the following is not an ingredient of the concept crime ?
(A) Police investigation
(B) Guilty mind
(C) Act of commission or omission
(D) Actus reus
56. Which of the following is a characteristics of crime ?
(A) It changes from time to time.
(B) It changes from place to place.
(C) It changes from person to person.
(D) All of the above
57. ‘Mens Rea’ refers to
(A) Crime
(B) The physical act of crime
(C) Criminal Intention
(D) None of the above
58. Capital Punishment, in India, is given in
(A) Rare cases
(B) Rarest of rare cases
(C) All serious cases
(D) None of the above
59. “Any data stored in a computer that supports or refutes a theory of how an offence occurred” is called
(A) Software
(B) Hardware
(C) Digital evidence
(D) None of the above
60. The term ‘White Collar Crime’ is coined by
(A) Wolf gang
(B) Sutherland
(C) Healy
(D) None of the above
61. Which among the following is not correct about open-air jails ?
(A) Minimum security
(B) Agricultural activity
(C) Prisoners with good conduct
(D) Present in all States in India
62. The Juvenile Justice Board, as per, Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, is presided by
(A) Magistrate
(B) Child Welfare Officer
(C) Probation Officer
(D) Juvenile Welfare Officer
63. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?
(A) Defensible space – Oscar Newman
(B) Routine Activity theory – Marcus
(C) Sub-culture theory – Karl Marx
(D) Ecological theory – E.W. Burgess
64. Match the List – I with List – II, using the codes given below :
65. Which one of the following is correctly matched ?
(A) Bivariate – Percentage
(B) Hypothesis – Level of Significance
(C) Reliability – Chi-square
(D) Univariate – Correlation
66. Arrange the following research processes, in which they are conducted. Use the codes given below :
i. Analyze data
ii. Data collection
iii. Formulate Hypotheses
iv. Interpret and Report
Codes :
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) iv ii i iii
(C) iv ii iii i
(D) iii ii i iv
67. Assertion (A) : Police administrative reforms were successful and the success of these reforms was also their failure, in a way.
Reason (R) : In embracing administrative reforms, the police drifted away from the public. Institutionally, the
police became inward looking and cloaked their business in secrecy.
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.
68. Match the List – I with List – II, using the codes given below :
69. Compensation is a payment made by the state to the
(A) Offender
(B) Victim
(C) Judge
(D) None of the above
70. The idea that ‘anomie’ is a complete collapse of social solidarity’, has been propounded by
(A) Adler
(B) Durkheim
(C) Sutherland
(D) Cloward
71. An academic discipline that makes use of scientific methods of study the nature, extent, cause and control of criminal behaviour is called
(A) Sociology
(B) Criminal Justice
(C) Criminology
(D) Psychology
72. The guidelines given by the Supreme Court of India in D.K. Basu case deal with
(A) Child Rights
(B) Prisoner’s Rights
(C) Women Rights
(D) Arrested Person’s Right
73. The sub-area of criminology concerned with the role social forces play in shaping criminal law and the role criminal law plays in shaping society is known as
(A) Victimology
(B) Criminal Statistics
(C) Penology
(D) The sociology of law
74. When referring to the evolution of criminal law, which statement is inaccurate ?
(A) The globalization of crime will prompt changes in the criminal law.
(B) Highly publicized cases may generate fear but rarely prompt changes in the law.
(C) Criminal law may shift to reflect tolerance of behaviour previously condemned.
(D) Criminal law will constantly evolve to reflect social and economic conditions.
75. Which among the following is not considered to be probability sample ?
(A) Simple random sample
(B) Stratified random sample
(C) Quota sample
(D) Cluster sample
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