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This set of Crime and Punishment Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Crime And Punishment Set 1

Q1 | The highest court of India is ------
  • high court
  • supreme court
  • national tribunal
  • none of these
Q2 | The word crime is derived from ------- language
  • greek
  • latin
  • french
  • none of these
Q3 | According to ---- theory , the aim of punishment is to prevent others from committing similar offence
  • retributive
  • deterrent
  • reformative
  • none of these
Q4 | A vice that issues in an evil deed is termed as -----
  • crime
  • sin
  • virtue
  • none of these
Q5 | Capital punishment is meant ------
  • hanging to death
  • life imprisonment
  • imposing huge fine
  • none of these
Q6 | Crime is the behavior prohibited by --------
  • law
  • custom
  • social order
  • conduct
Q7 | Who defines crime as a social phenomenon
  • kant
  • marx
  • richard quinney
  • plato
Q8 | Earth quakes and hurricanes are instances of --------
  • natural evil
  • vice
  • moral evil
  • error
Q9 | Where is the International Court of Justice is located :
  • vienna
  • paris
  • tokyo
  • the hague
Q10 | The moral faculty that apprehends the rightness and wrongness of action is called ------
  • conscience
  • duty
  • reason
  • sentiment
Q11 | --------- is condemned in punishment
  • total character
  • mind set
  • as performer of act
  • person as total character
Q12 | The theory of reforming the offender is called ------- theory
  • retributive
  • deterrent
  • rehabilitation
  • none of these
Q13 | The offence done in the internet is called :
  • computer crime
  • cyber-crime
  • internet crime
  • none of these
Q14 | Deterrent theory is supported by ----------
  • positivism
  • deontological ethics
  • rationalist theory
  • utilitarianism
Q15 | ‘An erring conscience is a chimera’ according to :
  • plato
  • butler
  • hegel
  • kant
Q16 | -------- is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing body can prescribe a conviction
  • fine
  • punishment
  • crime
  • none of these
Q17 | Capital punishment is justified in ------- theory
  • deterrent
  • retributive
  • rehabilitation
  • none of these
Q18 | -------- is termed a stain of inner character
  • virtue
  • vice
  • good
  • sin
Q19 | ------- is the severest form of punishment
  • violence to the body
  • capital punishment
  • social disapproval
  • solitary confinement
Q20 | The view that punishment is a negative reward is held by :
  • kant
  • aristotle
  • hegel
  • plato
Q21 | Criminology supports the theory of ---------- punishment
  • reformative
  • retributive
  • deterrent
  • rehabilitation
Q22 | ‘Criminals ought to be cured’ according to
  • physiologists
  • criminologists
  • psychologists
  • criminal anthropologists
Q23 | Which among the following is a criticism against Deterrent theory
  • criminal may escape
  • against public opinion
  • violates human dignity
  • none of these
Q24 | Punishment is an act of justice in --------- theory
  • reformative
  • deterrent
  • retributive
  • none of these
Q25 | Deterrent theory is criticized as it violates ---------
  • public opinion
  • common good
  • human dignity
  • none of these