Criminology Short Questions/Answers
Schools Of Thought throughout History MCQs
Who is referred to as the founder of the Classical School of criminology?
• Beccaria
Who was the founder of the Positivist School?
• Lombroso
At a very young age he authored his most famous work titled, On Crimes and Punishments?
• Cesare Beccaria
On Crimes and Punishments was published in
• 1764
In criminology, the Classical School usually refers to the 18th-century work during the Enlightenment by the utilitarian and social-contract philosophers:
• Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria
The postmodernist school in criminology applies postmodernism to the study of
• Crime and Criminals
__________shift attention from Marxist concerns of economic and social oppression to linguistic production, arguing that criminal law is a language to create dominance relationships.
• Postmodernists
The primary idea behind ________is that criminals are born as such and not made into criminals
• Positivist criminology
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It is the nature of the person, not nurture that results in criminal propensities. One famous positive criminologist was
• Lombroso
Which of the following persons established what came to be known as the classical school of criminology?
• Cesare Beccaria
Which of the following notions does the classical school of criminology suggest about individual behavior?
• persons weigh the consequences of their behavior
Which of the following views is purported by the positivist school of criminology?
• criminal behaviour stems from biological, psychological and social factors
What did Cesare Beccaria believe that crime problems could be traced to?
• bad laws
Which of the following views on punishment would Cesare Beccaria not agree with?
• it is better to punish crimes than prevent them
Which term did Jeremy Bentham use to describe human equations regarding behaviour?
• felicific calculus
The study of phrenology regarding criminal behavior suggests that:
• bumps on the head were indications of psychological propensities.
Lombroso contended that criminals are distinguishable from noncriminals by:
• atavistic stigmata.
Which of the following traits would be consistent with “born criminals,” according to Lombroso?
• huge jaws and strong canine teeth
Which of the following notions did Emile Durkheim not suggest about crime?
• crime is a result of genetic inferior people
Which category of criminals did Lombroso suggest were not born criminal?
• insane criminals
Why did Enrico Ferri argue that criminals should not be held morally responsible for their crimes?
• criminals are driven to commit crime by conditions in their lives
What term did Raffaele Garofalo use to describe criminal behaviour?
• moral anomalies
Who made the first major challenge to Lombrosian theory?
• Charles Buckman Goring | Criminology Short Questions
Who is credited with the reawakening of Lombrosian theory in 1939?
• Ernest Hooten | Criminology Short Questions
Which of the following treatments did Ernest Hooten recommend for criminals?
• Sterilization | Criminology Short Questions
The term somatotype refers to the relationship of criminal behaviour to:
• body build. | Criminology Short Questions
According to William Sheldon, who is more likely to be involved in illegal behaviour?
• Mesomorphs | Criminology Short Questions
What name did Richard Dugdale assign to the family of more than 1000 members that he studied when concluding that criminality was genetically linked?
• Jukes | Criminology Short Questions
Adolphe Quetelet and Andre Michel Guerry suggested that criminal behaviour is a result of:
• social factors. | Criminology Short Questions
_______view human behaviour resulting from many forces
• Positivists school | Criminology Short Questions
_______contends persons will make rational choices.
• Classical school | Criminology Short Questions
