Quiz: Criminology For Beginner Questions!
12 Questions
| Total Attempts: 9069
There is a lot that goes through someone’s mind before they think of breaking the law and if you want to successfully pass that criminology class you must be free to get into a criminals mind and know how they think. The quiz below is designed for criminology beginners to see what they have understood so far in class. Give it a try!
Questions and Answers
- 1.Criminology is the umbrella title of the scientific study of crimes and criminals.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.______ ______, an 18th century Italian, is recognised as being one of earliest people to write about criminology.
- A.
Raffaele Garofalo
- B.
Paul Topinard
- C.
Cesare Beccaria
- D.
Cesare Lombroso
- 3.Criminology now incorporates other sciences, including sociology, psychology, criminal law, gene and DNA recognition, forensic science and forensic pathology.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Forensic psychiatry is used to gauge the mental state of both victim and criminal.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.DNA is the study of why certain people are victims of crime and how lifestyles affect the chances that a certain person will fall victim to a crime.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.______ takes place after death and results in the biological breakdown of body tissues.
- A.
Decomposition
- B.
Rigor Mortis
- 7.Assassination or attempted assassination is the term used to describe a murder or attempted murder of someone in authority, normally for political or religious reasons.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Crime Passionel is carried out for personal pleasure or in anger.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.A Swedish pharmacist, ______, discovered that if you took arsenious oxide and altered its composition you could then turn it into arsenious acid.
- A.
Charles LeFarge
- B.
Karl Wilhem Scheele
- C.
Dr M. Orfila
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