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Introduction To Criminology Css MCQS: D) Lombroso

This document contains 20 multiple choice questions about criminology concepts including: 1) Cesare Lombroso is considered the father of criminology. 2) Victimization can be contributed to through defenselessness. 3) Biological theory maintains that human behavior including criminality is often inherited. 4) Mens rea or criminal intent is required to establish culpability.

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Introduction To Criminology Css MCQS: D) Lombroso

This document contains 20 multiple choice questions about criminology concepts including: 1) Cesare Lombroso is considered the father of criminology. 2) Victimization can be contributed to through defenselessness. 3) Biological theory maintains that human behavior including criminality is often inherited. 4) Mens rea or criminal intent is required to establish culpability.

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Introduction to Criminology CSS MCQs

1. Who considered to be the father of Criminology?


a) Bentham
b) Garofalo
c) Comte
d) Lombroso
2. A victim may actively contribute to his/her own victimization through the appearance of
a) Adolescence-limited offender
b) Atavism
c) Socialization
d) Defenselessness
3. A theory that maintains that the basic determinants of human behavior, including criminality
are constitutionally r psychologically based and often inherited
a) Biological theory
b) Biopsychology
c) Biosocial criminology
d) None of these
4. The----holds that a defendant is not criminally responsible if the crime was the product of a
mental disease or defect
a) Durham rule
b) Substantial capacity test
c) Psychological profiling
d) Informed consent
5. Mens rea, or criminal intent, is required to establish
a) Rationality
b) Liability
c) Culpability
d) Innocence
6. What is defined as a series of interrelated propositions that attempt to describe, explain,
predict, and ultimately control some class of events?
a) System
b) Network
c) Probability
d) Theory
7. Which of the following is not considered a property crime by the UCR?
a) Robbery
b) Burglary
c) Arson
d) Theft
8. Who is the theorist of social control theory?
a) Reckless
b) Merton
c) Hirschi
d) Pepinski
9. Criminology does not have its roots in which of the following fields
a) Physical
b) Anthropology
c) Sociology
Introduction to Criminology CSS MCQs
d) Psychology
10. Crime is----to the factors of time and place
a) Conformity
b) Laws
c) Relative
d) Civil or tort
11. What crime does the Taliban use to fund its terrorist activities?
a) Money laundering
b) Computer crime
c) Destruction of cultural property
d) Illicit drug trafficking
12. Who suggested criminals have a moral insanity?
a) Paul Topinard
b) Edwin Sutherland
c) Cesare Lombroso
d) Emile Durkheim
13. In 1920 most scholars attributed the cause of crime to
a) Demons
b) Birth defects
c) Psychological imbalance
d) Influx of immigration
14. Which of the following acts did early societies impose punishment for violating?
a) Murder
b) Theft
c) Rape
d) Treason
15. About how many prisoners are being held in US prisons and jails today?
a) 1 million
b) 2 million
c) 5 million
d) 10 million
16. Which of the following crimes is not included in the UCR (America)?
a) Violent
b) Hate
c) Property
d) While-collar
17. A specialist in the collection and examination of the physical evidence of crime
a) Criminologist
b) Criminalist
c) Anthropologist
d) Sociologist
18. In what year did the term “criminal justice system” become popular?
a) 1923
b) 1944
c) 1967
d) 1974
Introduction to Criminology CSS MCQs
19. Fragmentation of medlla of scalp hair is a feature of all except
a) Negro race
b) Mongolians
c) Caucasians
d) Aryans
20. Scientific study of death is called
a) Thanotology
b) Serology
c) Biology
d) None of these

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