Theories of Crime quiz crafted by –
MD FIROJ ALAM
Forensic Expert & Criminologist
M.Sc. in Criminology & Police Studies
Sardar Patel University of Police Security and Criminal Justice
Jodhpur (Raj.)
INTRODUCTION TO THEORIES OF CRIME
May it be a petty one like theft, or a major one like murder, crime has been an integral part of our society since time immemorial. Many scholars studying the criminal aspects of the societies gave their views, may it be as primal as Dante’s Inferno or Gottfredson and Hirschi’s A General Theory of Crime. The field which although might appear dark at a glance, doesn’t fail to attract a large number of scholars.
The scientific study of the causes of delinquency and crime has been historically guided by the theories. The theories rely on logic to explain why a person commits a crime and whether the criminal act is the result of a rational decision, internal predisposition or external aspects.
Let’s look at the questions and their answers:
Que 1. CPTED refers to …
a) Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
b) Crime Protection Through Environmental Design
c) Crime Protection Towards Environmental Design
d) None of the Above
Answer- a) Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Que 2. In which year did rational choice theory come?
a) 1970
b) 1980
c) 1965
d) 1985
Answer- b) 1980
Que 3. Who gave rational choice theory?
a) Cesare Lombroso
b) Cesare Beccaria
c) Montesquieu
d) Jeremy Bentham
Answer-b) Cesare Beccaria
Que 4. Who gave routine activity theory?
a) Cohen & Felson
b) Jeremy Bentham
c) Robert E. Perk
d) Enrico Ferry
Answer-a) Cohen & Felson
Que 5. Who gave Term Atavism?
a) Marcus Felson
b) Charles Goring
c) A. E. Hooten
d) Cesare Lombroso
Answer- d) Cesare Lombroso
Que 6. Who Wrote the Psychoanalytic Approach to Juvenile Delinquency (1947)?
a) Sigmund Freud
b) Kate Friedlander
c) Ronald Akers
d) Robert E. Perk
Answer- b) Kate Friedlander
Que 7. Who is pioneer Psychologist of psychoanalysis and psychological theory, theorized the Oedipus complex and the Electra complex, coined the terms id, superego, ego, sex drive, and libido?
a) Cesare Beccaria
b) Sigmund Freud
c) Sutherland
d) J. Thomson
Answer- b) Sigmund Freud
Que 8. Who Developed an integrated theory, wrote Explaining Delinquency and Drug Use (1985)?
a) Robert L Burgess
b) Albert Bandura
c) Edwin Sutherland
d) Delbert Elliot
Answer- d) Delbert Elliot
Que 9. Who Proposed the containment theory of delinquency and crime?
a) David Matza
b) J Albert Reiss
c) Walter Reckless
d) Ivan F. Nye
Answer- c) Walter Reckless
Que 10. Who developed the perspective of delinquent subculture?
a) Emile Durkheim
b) Ernest Burgess
c) Henry DMcKay
d) Albert K Cohen
Answer- d) Albert K Cohen
Que 11. Who French sociologist, wrote Suicide (1893)?
a) Emile Durkheim
b) Ernest Burgess
c) Robert Agnew
d) None of the Above
Answer- a) Emile Durkheim
Que 12. Who European theorist, wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848)?
a) Richard Quinney
b) Karl Marx
c) Otto Kirchheimer
d) None
Answer-b) Karl Marx
Que 13. Who Wrote the Social Reality of Crime (1970)?
a) Willem Bonger
b) Edwin Sutherland
c) Richard Quinney
d) Bentham
Answer- c) Richard Quinney
Que 14. Who Proposed the social network theory?
a) Richard Quinney
b) Marvin D Crohn
c) John H Laub
d) All of the Above
Answer-b) Marvin D Crohn
Que 15. Who Proposed an interactional theory of delinquency?
a) Howard B Kaplan
b) Mark Colvin
c) Both a & b
d) Terence P Thornberry
Answer- d) Terence P Thornberry