_______contends persons will make rational choices.
(a) Positivists school
(b) Postmodernists
(c) Classical school
(d) None of these
Criminology MCQs
_______view human behaviour resulting from many forces
(a) Positivists school
(b) Postmodernists
(c) Classical school
(d) None of these
Adolphe Quetelet and Andre Michel Guerry suggested that criminal behaviour is a result of:
(a) biological inferiority.
(b) social factors.
(c) physical traits.
(d) free will.
What name did Richard Dugdale assign to the family of more than 1000 members that he studied when concluding that criminality was genetically linked?
(a) Kallikak
(b) York
(c) Jukes
(d) Goddard
According to William Sheldon, who is more likely to be involved in illegal behaviour?
(a) Mesomorphs
(b) endomorphs
(c) ectomorphs
(d) paramorphs
The term somatotype refers to the relationship of criminal behaviour to:
(a) brain dysfunction.
(b) impoverished social conditions.
(c) body build.
(d) ape-like characteristics.
Which of the following treatments did Ernest Hooten recommend for criminals?
(a) Sterilization
(b) a life of servitude
(c) religious penance
(d) physical and social banishment
Who is credited with the reawakening of Lombrosian theory in 1939?
(a) Charles Goring
(b) Raffaele Garafalo
(c) Ernest Hooten
(d) Karl Pearson
Who made the first major challenge to Lombrosian theory?
(a) Enrico Ferri
(b) Raffaele Garofalo
(c) Charles Darwin
(d) Charles Buckman Goring
What term did Raffaele Garofalo use to describe criminal behaviour?
(a) atavistic stigmata
(b) criminaloid
(c) moral anomalies
(d) infidels