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1. .......................is
what each society by its laws says is a conduct which breaches the social,
moral or other norms of the society and is therefore resented by the said
society?
(A).
Criminology
(B).
Criminal Justice
(C). Crime
(D).
Criminal
2. Criminology
is best seen as a social science, which is concerned with the aspects of
.............
(A)
Human anatomy
(B)
Human Biology
(C)
Harmful behaviour
(D)
Human
behaviour
3. Criminology
has many meanings but the most commonly accepted is the specific ...........................
of crime and criminals.
(A)
Social understanding
(B)
Sociological understanding
(C)
Similitude misunderstanding
(D)
Scientific
understanding
4. Basically,
crime appears to be a sociological concept and does not exist as an autonomous
entity but is.............................................constructed.
(A).
Scientifically
(A). Non-scientifically
(C ). Nonsensically
(D). Socially
5. The
criminologist usually focuses more on ‘how’ and ‘why’ crimes
are..............rather than ‘who’ did it, and providing proof of guilt.
(A) Omitted
(B) Prosecuted
(C)
Committed
(D) Commissioned
6. Criminology
is best seen as a social science concerned with those aspects of human
behaviour regarded as criminal because they are prohibited by
the................................
(A)
Law enforcement agencies
(B)
Criminal
law
(C)
Common law
(D)
Criminal justice systems
7. The study
of Criminology recognises what determines and why individuals commit crime and
juvenile delinquency; and as well as the steps necessary
in.......................................
(A)
Combating crime
(B)
Criminal justice revivalism
(C)
Community approach to studying criminal mind
(D)
Controlling
crime
8. The major
branches of criminology are all except one of the following
(A)
Penology
(B)
Victimology
(C)
Criminalistics
(D)
Psychoanalysis
9. In
defining criminology as an independent discipline the seventeenth and
eighteenth century understanding of crime was regarded as an omnipresent
temptation to which all human kind
was..................................................................
(A)
Not
vicariously liable
(B)
Vulnerable
(C)
Not
vulnerable
(D)
Sometimes
vulnerable
10. The
Christian tradition discusses individual wrongdoing in explicitly moral and
spiritual terms which contradict the systematically controlled .............evidence.
(A)
Empirical
(B)
Ecumenical
(C) Punitive
(D) Punishment
11. Other
discourses on crime and criminals are the various writing of ancient and
medieval philosophers that made rudimentary versions of an understanding of how
one becomes deviant. These writings include all but one of the
following..........................................
(A)
Criminal biographies and broadsheets
(B)
Accounts of the Renaissance underworld and Tudor
vogue pamphlets
(C)
Elizabethan dramas and Jacobean city comedies and
the utopia of Thomas More and the Famous novels of Daniel Defoe especially
“Moll Flanders” published in 1722.
(D)
Criminal
justice renaissance
12. The
Enlightenment writers wrote secular analyses, emphasising the importance of
..........and .........rather than the theological forms of reasoning which are
dominated by irrational, superstitious beliefs and prejudices.
(A)
Reason and extrovert
(B)
Ransom and response
(C)
Reason and
experience
(D)
Resurrection and confession
13. The
scientific style of reasoning was the ...................................................thinking
about crime.
(A)
Experience
(B)
Enlightenment
(C)
Argument
(D)
Enslavement
14. All
but one of the following cannot be associated with the scientific style of
reasoning about crime among the early French Philosophers.....................................
(A)
Voltaire
(B)
Carol Smart
(C)
Montesquieu
(D)
Rousseau
15. In
defining criminology as a legal subject,. ...............defines criminology as
the study of the social origins of criminal law, the administration of criminal
justice, the causes of criminal behaviour, and the prevention and control of
crime.
(A)
Smart
(B)
Sykes
(C) Sigmund
Freud
(D) Emile
Durkheim
16.
Sutherland and Cressey define criminology as the body of knowledge regarding .........and..........as
social phenomena.
(A)
Delinquency
and crime
(B)
Demonology and delinquency
(C)
Psychology and physiology
(D)
Crime and criminal justice
17.
According to Sutherland and Cressey, criminology includes within its scope, the
process of making laws, of breaking laws, and the reacting
to.....................................
(A)
The
pogrom of criminal recidivism
(B)
The breaking of law
(C) The
amendment of law
(D).
The leniency of law
18.
Psychoanalysis criminology is the basis of ..................................................analysis
of crime.
(A)
Sampson
Thompson
(B)
Sigmund Freud
(C)
Robert K.
Merton
(D)
All of the above
19.
According to................., crime and delinquency are a consequence of an
imbalance between the three factors of the subconscious mind: the id, the ego,
and the superego.
(A)
Durkheim
(B)
Lombroso
(C)
Montesquieu
(D)
Freud
20. The
id (instinct gratification) is the component of the subconscious mind that is
self-serving, egocentric, and concerned
with........................................
(A)
Self-aggrandizement
(B)
Self-centred
(C)
Self-gratification
(D)
Selfishness
21.
Conversely, the superego is the component of the mind that represents morality
and...............
(A)
Self-gratification
(B)
Conscience
(C)
Comfort
(D)
Schizophrenia
22.
Criminologically, if the id or superego overpowers the mediating force of the
ego, crime, delinquency, and other forms of irrational behaviour
may......................................
(A)
Not occour
(B)
Not always occour
(C)
Occour
(D)
Sometimes occour
23.
....................and .............coined this sociological terminology
“functionalism” from a type of crime which is characterised as a consequence of
societal requirements, customs and institutions.
(A)
Cesare Beccaria and Cesare Lombroso
(B)
Robert K.
Merton and Talcott Parsons
(C)
Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim
(D)
Carol Smart and Jane Addams
24. The
concept of functionalism believes that Crime is both functional and
dysfunctional. This statement is........
(A)
Not true
(B)
True
(C)
Partially true
(D)
Undecided
25. Crime
is said to be functional when its society has a normal characteristics and
proper actions of a social organisation. Do you agree?
(A)
No
(B)
Yes
(C)
Not always
(D)
Somehow
26. Crime
is also said to be dysfunctional when it undermines and impairs society’s
capacity to provide for the well- being and safety of its members and to
maintain their trust. True or false?
(A)
True
(B)
False
(C)
Not in all cases
(D)
Indifferent
27.
Interactionalism criminology is the basis of
...........................................analysis of crime.
(A)
Psychoanalysis
(B)
Karl Marx
(C)
Erving
Goffman
(D)
Talcott Parsons
28. The
concept of interactionalism examines the new ways of looking at behaviour, and
what the language used symbolises for the actor, as well as how other people’s
behaviour is described and....................................................
(A)
Intentioned
(B)
Interpreted
(C)
Instigated
(D)
Incarcerated
29.
Marxism Criminology observed that the economic base or the infrastructure
determines the precise nature of the super structure. True or false?
(A)
False
(B)
Strongly disagreed
(C)
Strongly agreed
(D)
True
30. The
concept of feminism is the radical tradition of the feminist criminology
propounded by a British sociologist
called......................................................
(A)
Rosaline
Smart
(B)
Jane Addams
(C)
Carol Smart
(D)
Celine Dion
