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WorksheetsQuiz on Theories of Crime Causation
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who is considered the Father of Modern Criminology?
Jeremy Bentham
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Lombroso
Enrico Ferri
Which school of criminology argued that individuals have free will to choose between legal and illegal means?
Neo-Classical School of Criminology
Positive School of Criminology
Classical School of Criminology
Positivist/Italian School
Who advocated the Differential Association Theory, stating that criminal behavior is learned and not inherited?
Edwin Sutherland
Enrico Ferri
Cesare Lombroso
Raffaele Garofalo
Which theory explains that crimes are caused by the absence of norms in society?
Containment Theory
Neutralization Theory
Strain Theory
Anomie Theory
Who is known for advocating the Sub-Culture Theory of Delinquency?
Lloyd Ohlin
Frank Tennenbaum
Albert Cohen
Gresham Sykes
Which criminologist proposed the Instrumentalist Theory of capitalist rule?
Earl Richard Quinney
Robert King Merton
Howard Becker
Edwin Lemert
According to the Classical School of Criminology, what is the aim of punishment?
To prevent the criminal from committing new crimes
To seek revenge on the criminal
To extract confessions through torture
To deter others from committing crimes
Which school of criminology argued that crime is a natural phenomenon comparable to disaster or calamity?
Pre-Classical Era
Positivist/Italian School
Classical School of Criminology
Neo-Classical School of Criminology
Who is considered the leader of the Positivist School of Criminology?
Cesare Lombroso
Enrico Ferri
Raffaele Garofalo
Ernest Kretschmer
Which theory explains that individuals calculate the consequences of their actions based on the pleasure and pain they would derive?
Neutralization Theory
Containment Theory
Strain Theory
Felicific Calculus
Who is known for advocating the Strain Theory, which states that individuals commit crimes due to anger, relative deprivation, and inequality?
Lloyd Ohlin
Albert Cohen
Gresham Sykes
Robert King Merton
Which criminologist proposed the Neutralization Theory, stating that individuals obey or disobey societal rules based on their ability to rationalize the consequences?
Gresham Sykes
Frank Tennenbaum
Lloyd Ohlin
Earl Richard Quinney
According to the Demonological Theory, what was believed to cause criminal behavior?
Psychological disorders
Social and moral phenomenon
Biological characteristics
Evil spirits and demons
Which school of criminology argued that situations or circumstances that made it impossible to exercise free will are reasons to exempt the accused from conviction?
Positivist/Italian School
Classical School of Criminology
Pre-Classical Era
Neo-Classical School of Criminology
Who is known for advocating the Differential Opportunity Theory, which explains that society provides greater opportunities for lower class groups to engage in deviant acts?
Lloyd Ohlin
Frank Tennenbaum
Albert Cohen
Earl Richard Quinney
