Top 80+ Solved Penology Treatment of Offenders MCQ Questions Answer
Q. During the medieval period, ________rulers introduced their own penal laws in India
a. the muslim
b. the hindu
c. the british
d. the buddhist
Q. The Muslim law arranged punishments for various offences into
a. two main categories (qisas&diya)
b. three main categories (qisas, diya & hadd)
c. four main categories (qisas, diya, hadd and tazeer)
d. various categories
Q. The Supreme Court in_______ struck down Section 303 of the Indian Penal Code,which provided for mandatory death punishment for offenders serving life sentence.
a. mithu v. state of punjab
b. rajendra prasad v. state of up
c. baachan singh v. state of punjab
d. machi singh & others v. state of punjab
Q. Justice Krishna Iyer in _____ observed that “corporal death is alien to fundamentalrights”.
a. rajendra prasad v. state of up
b. baachan singh v. state of punjab
c. mithu v. state of punjab
d. machi singh & others v. state of punjab
Q. In Mithu v. State of Punjab, Justice Y. V. Chandrachud observed that section 303 ofIPC
a. violatedonly the right to equality under article 14
b. violated only the right to life under article 21
c. violated both article 14 & 21
d. did not violate any right
Q. The doctrine of death penalty for ‘rarest of rare case’ was used by SC in
a. machi singh & others v. state of punjab
b. bacchan singh v. state of punjab
c. rajendra prasad v. state of up
d. madhu mehta v. union of india
Q. The Supreme Court of India has held the constitutional validity of Capital Punishmentin
a. jagmohan singh v. state of up
b. madhu mehta v. union of india
c. ankush maruti shinde v. state of maharashtra
d. bacchan singh v. state of punjab
Q. The Law Commission of India in 1967 recommended
a. the retention of death penalty
b. abolition of death penalty
c. in rarest of rare case
d. only for crimes under ipc
Q. The SC in _____ held that a delay of eight years in the disposal of mercy petition wouldbe sufficient to justify commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment.
a. madhu mehta v. union of india
b. ankush maruti shinde v. state of maharashtra
c. renuka bai v. state of maharashtra
d. amarjit singh v.state of punjab
Q. The most comprehensive study of the prison administration in all its aspects in Indiawas done by the Indian Jails Committee in
a. 1889-90
b. 1919-20
c. 1923-25
d. 1931-32
Q. Government of India set up the All India Jail Manual Committee in
a. 1956
b. 1947
c. 1949
d. 1965
Q. Justice A. N. Mulla Committee of Jail Reforms has suggested setting up of _____ formodernization of prison in India
a. national prison commission
b. central prison commission
c. national prison modernization commission
d. national jails modernization commission
Q. Who defined crime as the intentional Act in violation of the criminal law and penalizedby the state
a. paul tappan
b. lombroso
c. edwin sutherland
d. howard becker
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