Top 150+ Solved Crime and Punishment MCQ Questions Answer
Q. A police officer or probation officer is best described as a
a. criminalist.
b. Criminologist.
c. Criminal justice professional.
d. None of the above
Q. __________ definitions focus on criminology’s role in uncovering the underlying causes of crime.
a. Scientific
b. Causative
c. Disciplinary
d. None of the above
Q. According to various professional groups, violence in television, music, video games, and movies
a. may lead to increased levels of violent behavior among children.
b. may lead to decreased levels of violent behavior among children.
c. may lead to emotional sensitization toward violence in real life.
d. may have no effect on levels of violent behavior among children.
Q. Which of the following is not an immediate input provided by the justice system that may enhance or reduce the likelihood of criminal occurrences?
a. Police response time to a crime scene
b. The availability or lack of official assistance
c. The presence or absence of police officers
d. A prison that acts as a “crime school”
Q. Which of the following is considered as a disease?
a. Robbery
b. Burglary
c. Arson
d. kleptomania
Q. Which of the following is not a reason why rape victims fail to report their victimization?
a. Fear that the crime is not important enough to report
b. Fear of the perpetrator
c. Fear of participation in the criminal justice system
d. Shame
Q. According to Elliott Currie, the __________ is the rate of crime calculated on the basis of crimes that would likely be committed by those who are incapacitated by the criminal justice system.
a. Actual crime rate,
b. Criminality index,
c. latent crime rate,
d. Clearance rate
Q. For a defence of intoxication, to escape criminal liability, the intoxication:
a. can be self-administered
b. administered against his will or knowledge
c. should not be self-administered
d. all the above.
Q. All about ‘intention’ is true except one:
a. is a state of mind
b. is an objective element
c. rarely susceptible to proof
d. always a matter of inference
Q. The study of one particular criminal organization is an example of the __________ datagathering strategy.
a. survey research
b. case study
c. participant observation
d. secondary analysis
Q. The word ‘illegal’ is applicable to everything:
a. which is an offence
b. which is prohibited by law
c. which furnishes ground for civil action
d. all of them
Q. Which of the following was not one of the three types of crimes outlined by Beccaria?
a. Crimes that involved no victims other than society
b. Crimes that ran contrary to the social order
c. Crimes that injured citizens or their property
d. Crimes that threatened the security of the state
Q. Which of the following is true about imprisonment?
a. it is characterised by hard labour
b. it is characterised by confinement to jail
c. is subject to the kind of imprisonment
d. all of them