If you are preparing for the CSS Criminology paper, past paper MCQs are one of the best ways to revise important concepts, theories, authors, laws, and criminological terms. The CSS Criminology objective portion usually appears as Question No. 1 and carries 20 compulsory marks. Practising these MCQs can help you understand the type of questions asked by FPSC and improve your preparation for the final exam.
In this post, you will find year-wise CSS Criminology past paper MCQs with answers, including MCQs from CSS 2024, CSS 2023, CSS 2021, CSS 2019, CSS 2023 Special Examination, CSS 2016, CSS 2020, and CSS 2025.
Please note: Some years are fully verified, while some sections are reconstructed or partial because the original MCQ options were not fully available in text form. Where necessary, this has been clearly mentioned so candidates can use this material carefully for revision.
CSS Criminology MCQs 2024
- Children who continue to commit status offense despite repeated intervention by family, school, social service, and LEAs are called:
(A) Life course persistent offender
(B) Chronic status offender
(C) Recidivist
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Cesare Beccaria wrote a book on crime and punishment in:
(A) 1764
(B) 1738
(C) 1799
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Parens patriae is:
(A) The supreme guardian of every child
(B) Ultimate guardian of every child
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- The first specialized correctional institute for youth in the United States was:
(A) Borstal institution
(B) Juvenile court
(C) House of commons
(D) None of these (House of Refuge)
Answer: D
- Who is called the father of probation?
(A) Blackstone
(B) John Augustus
(C) Travis Hirschi
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- A philosophy of punishment based on society’s moral outrage or disapproval of a crime is called:
(A) Individual justice
(B) Utilitarian philosophy
(C) Retribution
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Social Disorganization Theory was proposed by:
(A) Wilson & Kelin
(B) Robert K. Merton
(C) Edwin Sutherland
(D) None of these (Shaw & McKay)
Answer: D
- The dictum ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ was related to:
(A) The code of severe punishment
(B) The Code of Hammurabi
(C) Societal laws of UK
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- According to Strain theory, ____ have traditional success goals but substitute deviant means to achieve them.
(A) Conformists
(B) Innovators
(C) Rebels
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Who coined the term Criminology?
(A) Cesare Beccaria
(B) Cesare Lombroso
(C) Becker
(D) None of these (Garofalo)
Answer: D
- Who is considered the father of Criminology?
(A) Cesare Beccaria
(B) Jeremy Bentham
(C) Cesare Lombroso
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- ____ is a malicious software that inserts itself into other programs.
(A) Worms
(B) Malware
(C) Virus
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- ____ damages data, ____ steals sensitive private information.
(A) Virus, Spyware
(B) Virus, Antivirus
(C) Antivirus, Spyware
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Phishing is a form of:
(A) Impersonation
(B) Spamming
(C) Identity theft
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- A working definition of the problem is formulated during which stage of the SARA problem-solving approach?
(A) Assessment
(B) Analysis
(C) Response
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Community policing recommends ____, with less reliance on the patrol car and more face-to-face interaction.
(A) Prevention Emphasis
(B) Geographic Focus
(C) Both (A) & (B)
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- ____ is when a company or person sends unwanted email to another person.
(A) Skimming
(B) Spoofing
(C) Spamming
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- A person who frequently has been convicted of criminal behavior and is presumed to be a danger:
(A) Occasional Criminals
(B) Habitual Criminals
(C) Professional Criminals
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- ____ applied a positivist approach in analyzing crimes.
(A) Cesare Lombroso
(B) R. K. Merton
(C) Cesare Beccaria
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- ____ describes repeat offending by those who have been in prison.
(A) Repetition
(B) Reciprocal
(C) Recidivism
(D) None of these
Answer: C
CSS Criminology MCQs 2023
- Walter Reckless is associated with:
(A) Strain theory
(B) Containment Theory
(C) Labeling Theory
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Sir Robert Peel is father of:
(A) Policing
(B) Courts
(C) Prisons
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Theory of industrialization was put forward by:
(A) Robert Peel
(B) Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza
(C) Enrico Ferri
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Who was Raffaelo Garofalo?
(A) French Scientist
(B) English Scientist
(C) German Sociologist
(D) None of these (Italian criminologist)
Answer: D
- Strain theory is associated with:
(A) Raffaelo Garofalo
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Edwin M. Lemert
(D) None of these (Merton)
Answer: D
- The work of J. Bentham, C. Beccaria and Becker is associated with:
(A) Criminal Deterrence
(B) Atavistic Anomalies
(C) Born Criminals
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Hugo Munsterberg is well known for his contribution to:
(A) Forensic Psychology
(B) Industrial Psychology
(C) Both A and B
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Book ‘The Moral Sense’ (1993) was written by:
(A) Enrico Ferri
(B) James Q. Wilson
(C) Jeremy Bentham
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Which is an example of a Victimless crime?
(A) Prostitution
(B) Burglary
(C) Blackmailing
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Burglary means:
(A) Breaking and entering with intention to commit serious offense
(B) Theft
(C) Robbing by force
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Who wrote the book ‘Sociologia Criminale’ (1884)?
(A) Robert K. Merton
(B) Edwin Sutherland
(C) Enrico Ferri
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Anomie theory was given by:
(A) Emile Durkheim
(B) J.K. Ossler
(C) R.K. Merton
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- ‘Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison’ is written by:
(A) Cesare Beccaria
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Cesare Lombroso
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Who is considered the father of probation?
(A) John Augustus (1786-1859)
(B) Edwin Sutherland (1883-1950)
(C) Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- The book ‘Prisoners of Tomorrow’ (1931) was written by:
(A) Cesare Beccaria
(B) James P. Hogan
(C) J.K. Ossler
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Alexander Maconochie is the father of:
(A) Parole
(B) Probation
(C) Trial
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Larger institutions that incarcerate convicted offenders are called:
(A) Lock-ups
(B) Prisons
(C) Probation centers
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- John Howard (1726-1790) is the father of:
(A) Courts reform
(B) Prison reform
(C) Punishment
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Felicific calculus measures:
(A) Truthfulness
(B) Lying
(C) Amount of pleasure
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Alexandre Lacassagne had renowned services related to the field of:
(A) Forensic Science
(B) Philosophy
(C) Law
(D) None of these
Answer: A
CSS Criminology MCQs 2021
- A peeping Tom (peeks into windows for sexual thrill) is considered a crime against:
(A) Property
(B) Person
(C) Society
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- The pluralistic perspective suggests behaviors are typically criminalized through:
(A) General agreement of members of society
(B) A political process
(C) Existence of shared norms and values
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- ____ is concerned with the control and prevention of crime in the treatment of offenders:
(A) Sociology of law
(B) Etiology
(C) Penology
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- The Code of Hammurabi is dated to about:
(A) 1755 BC
(B) 1753 BC
(C) 1750 BC
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Juvenile Justice System Act was passed in:
(A) 2000
(B) 2002
(C) 2012
(D) 2018
Answer: D
- Phrenology is based on the idea that criminal traits could be determined by the study of:
(A) Body type
(B) Skull shape
(C) Genes
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- According to August Aichorn, delinquency could be caused by a lack of parental love, creating:
(A) A regulated id
(B) An overdeveloped ego
(C) An underdeveloped superego
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- The ____ definition focuses on criminology’s role in uncovering the underlying cause of crime:
(A) Scientific
(B) Causative
(C) Disciplinary
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- One of the following is NOT a cause of juvenile delinquency:
(A) Neglected homes
(B) Policy inefficiency
(C) Lack of proper guidance
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- A mutual feeling between hostage and hostage-taker due to prolonged negotiation is known as:
(A) Camaraderie
(B) Sympathy
(C) Successful negotiation
(D) Stockholm syndrome
Answer: D
- A common reason for not reporting violent crime is that the victim:
(A) Fears future victimization by the same offender
(B) Considers the crime a private matter
(C) Believes police will be ineffective
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- ____ coined the sociological term ‘functionalism’:
(A) Robert K. Merton and Talcott Parsons
(B) Cesare Beccaria and Cesare Lombroso
(C) Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Magna Carta was signed in:
(A) 450 B.C
(B) 1215 A.D
(C) 1066 A.D
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- According to John F. Galliher, legal definitions of criminality are arrived at through a ____ process.
(A) Sociological
(B) Psychological
(C) Political
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- In the early 1960s, what brought the social problem of violence towards children to public attention?
(A) Henry Kempe’s article ‘The battered child syndrome’
(B) A child killed on live TV
(C) Mary Puller drowning her kids
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Humans do not necessarily possess an instinct for violence; its expression represents:
(A) Violence against those who wronged you
(B) Matters learned in a social context
(C) A person’s inner violence
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Which job probably would NOT fall within the field of criminalistics?
(A) Fingerprint examiner
(B) Polygraph operator
(C) Forensics examiner
(D) Correctional officer
Answer: D
- ‘Atavistic anomalies’ is a term coined by:
(A) Edwin Sutherland
(B) Lombroso
(C) Jeremy Bentham
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- According to Elliot Currie, the ____ is crime calculated on the basis of crime likely committed by those incapacitated by the justice system:
(A) Actual crime rate
(B) Criminality index
(C) Latent crime rate
(D) Clearance rate
Answer: D
- ‘Social disorganization reduces social capital and collective efficacy, increasing crime’ is the argument of:
(A) Glueck & Glueck
(B) Robert Ezra Park
(C) Sampson
(D) None of these
Answer: C
CSS Criminology MCQs 2019
- Deviance refers to ____.
(A) An investigation
(B) A political force
(C) A behaviour or action
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- What is meant by the term Recidivism?
(A) Studying violent crimes
(B) Ability to serve jail time
(C) Tendency to commit crime again
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Who coined the term ‘White Collar Crimes’?
(A) Raffaele Garofalo
(B) Edwin Sutherland
(C) Karl Marx
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Criminal violence includes:
(A) Bank fraud
(B) Any aggressive gesture
(C) Stalking
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- The crime of intentionally setting a building on fire is:
(A) Arson
(B) Dacoity
(C) Burglary
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Probation can be given to:
(A) Repeat Offenders
(B) First time offenders
(C) Innocent Suspects
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Which of the following is a victimless crime?
(A) Violence
(B) Hoarding
(C) Prostitution
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- According to Edwin Sutherland, criminology can be defined by:
(A) Solving crimes
(B) Breaking law or responsible for social damage
(C) Overall study of human nature
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- According to Freud, which unconscious mental process is the moral compass?
(A) Id
(B) The superego
(C) Ego
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Delinquency is a crime committed by:
(A) Senior citizens
(B) Adults
(C) Juvenile
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Burglary is defined as illegal entry of a building with ____.
(A) Intent to commit a crime especially theft
(B) Intent to steal secrets
(C) Intent to do physical harm
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- The idea or objective of ____ is that criminals don’t commit crime again in future.
(A) Recidivism
(B) Reformation
(C) Reconstruction
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Thomas Hobbes gave the theory of:
(A) Reformation as healing
(B) Socialism
(C) Social contract
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Parole can be given to someone who has:
(A) Committed the crime first time
(B) Spent some time in jail
(C) Whoever files for it
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- The classical school of criminology is based on the concept of ____.
(A) People have free will
(B) People learn to be criminal
(C) People are inherently evil
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Classical school of thought for punishment to a criminal is:
(A) Inflict pain
(B) Do reformation
(C) Study the crime
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- ‘Criminology’ term used for the first time by:
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Edwin Sutherland
(C) Raffaele Garofalo
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Article 391 of Pakistan Penal Code relates to ____ (robbery by 5 or more persons).
(A) Dacoity
(B) Burglary
(C) Stealing
(D) None of these
Answer: A
Note: Q19–Q20 of the 2019 set were not recoverable from the verified source.
CSS Criminology MCQs 2023 Special Examination
- ____ refers to the study of the agencies of social control – police, courts and corrections.
(A) Criminology
(B) Criminal Justice System
(C) Penology
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- ‘Laws apply to all citizens equally’ is a ____ view on crime.
(A) Conflict
(B) Consensus
(C) Interactionist
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- ____ links crime rate to the ecological characteristics of a neighborhood.
(A) Social Disorganization Theory
(B) Social Control Theory
(C) Learning Theory
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- According to Emile Durkheim, a/an ____ society is one in which rules of behavior break down during social change.
(A) Mechanic
(B) Organic
(C) Anomic
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Strain Theory of Anomie is given by:
(A) Robert K. Merton
(B) Richard Quinney
(C) Julian Rotter
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- After arrest, the suspect remains in police:
(A) Custody
(B) Station
(C) Line
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Believers in the restorative justice model advocate:
(A) Severe punishment
(B) Normal Punishment
(C) Peacemaking
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Probation provides ____ the opportunity to prove themselves and re-establish proper behavior in the community.
(A) Police
(B) Offender
(C) Victim
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- In ____, we specifically study the punishments for criminal acts.
(A) Penology
(B) Victimology
(C) Criminology
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- The term penology was coined by ____ , a French criminologist.
(A) Edwin Sutherland
(B) Auguste Forel
(C) Auguste Comte
(D) None of these
Answer: D
- INTERPOL stands for:
(A) International Police
(B) International Criminal Police Organization
(C) International Police Organization
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- UNODC stands for:
(A) United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(B) UN Office on Drugs and Criminality
(C) UN Office on Deviance and Crime
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- In legal terms, ____ includes all proceedings for collection of evidence by a police officer or authorized person.
(A) Interview
(B) Investigation
(C) Research
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- ‘Stop-and-Frisk Policing’ is used to stop and question individuals deemed:
(A) Criminal
(B) Suspicious
(C) Victim
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- The Headquarter of EUROPOL is in which European country?
(A) France
(B) Germany
(C) Austria
(D) None of these (Netherlands)
Answer: D
- A criminal who knowingly purchases stolen property and resells it is called:
(A) Thief
(B) Fence
(C) Robber
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Taking the property of another (with intent to steal) for one’s own use is:
(A) Robbery
(B) Burglary
(C) Larceny
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- In common law, breaking and entering a dwelling house at night with intent to commit a serious crime is:
(A) Robbery
(B) Arson
(C) Larceny
(D) None of these (Burglary)
Answer: D
- The current chairman of NAB is:
(A) Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Nazir Ahmed Butt
(B) Zahir Shah
(C) Justice (R) Javed Iqbal
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Unlawful touching of another with intent to cause injury is:
(A) Larceny
(B) Assault
(C) Battery
(D) None of these
Answer: C
CSS Criminology MCQs 2016
Reconstructed from a secondary question-bank. Several items were recorded in simplified True/False form and the set contains transcription gaps, so treat this year as indicative rather than an exact reproduction of the official paper.
- Deviance refers to:
(A) A trait
(B) A behavior or action
(C) Something that is always a crime
(D) Both A and B
Answer: B
- In regard to the characteristics of deviance and society:
(A) Eliminate the need for a criminal justice system
(B) People will continue to disagree about what is deviant
(C) Live in a utopia completely free from all deviance
(D) Society will criminalize less serious actions
Answer: B
- The classical school of criminology is based on the concept of:
(A) Free will
(B) Opportunity
(C) Biology
(D) Lack of choice
Answer: A
- As per Sigmund Freud, which unconscious mental process is the moral compass?
(A) The id
(B) The ego
(C) The superego
(D) The moral self
Answer: C
- When a person labeled deviant commits a second crime because of this label, the series of behaviors is termed:
(A) The dramatization of evil
(B) Primary deviance
(C) Secondary deviance
(D) Civilization
Answer: C
- Secondary deviance is the first act of deviance according to Edwin Lemert’s labeling theory.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: B (FALSE — that is primary deviance)
- Feminist criminologists argue that traditional criminology ignores gender differences in criminal activity.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE)
- Marxist criminologists argue that individuals with political power and wealth create laws to manipulate the lower class.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE)
- Persons with antisocial personality disorder usually isolate themselves from others.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: B (FALSE)
- Modern biological researchers believe there is a single gene that causes criminality.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: B (FALSE)
- Cesare Lombroso developed the theory of atavism.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE)
- Psychology is focused on the external influence of deviance.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: B (FALSE — psychology focuses on internal influences)
- Social norms which society feels most strongly about are usually codified into law.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE)
- Difference between white-collar and blue-collar crime is primarily:
(A) Economic
(B) Social
(C) Surrounding
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- Youth are more involved in crime.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE)
- The crime rate in hot regions is higher than in cold regions.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE — per classic ecological studies)
- Cohen states gang affiliation is learned by way of primary association.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE)
- It has been found that people with lower intelligence are more likely to commit crime.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE — as reported in the source)
- Reformative punishment is better than retributive punishment.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: A (TRUE — as reported in the source)
CSS Criminology MCQs 2020
Reconstructed from a secondary question-bank. The set had no answer keys, contains a duplicated item according to the source note, and ends at 18 questions with one option missing on the last. Several items overlap closely with the verified 2021 set, so treat this year as indicative rather than an exact reproduction.
- The pluralistic perspective suggests that behaviors are typically criminalized through:
(A) General agreement of members of society
(B) A political process
(C) The existence of shared norms and values
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- The job of which of the following probably would NOT fall within the field of criminalistics?
(A) Fingerprint examiner
(B) Polygraph operator
(C) Forensics examiner
(D) Correctional officer
Answer: D
- The ____ definition focuses on criminology’s role in uncovering the underlying cause of crime:
(A) Scientific
(B) Causative
(C) Disciplinary
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- According to Elliot Currie, the ____ is crime calculated on the basis of crime likely committed by those incapacitated by the justice system:
(A) Actual crime rate
(B) Criminality index
(C) Latent crime rate
(D) Clearance rate
Answer: D
- Magna Carta was signed in:
(A) 450 B.C
(B) 1215 A.D
(C) 1066 A.D
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Humans do not necessarily possess an instinct for violence; its expression represents:
(A) Violence against those who wronged you
(B) Matters learned in a social context
(C) A person’s inner violence
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- In the early 1960s, what brought the social problem of violence towards children to public attention?
(A) Henry Kempe’s article ‘The battered child syndrome’
(B) A child killed on live TV
(C) Mary Puller drowning her kids
(D) None of these
Answer: A
- What is concerned with the control and prevention of crime in the treatment of offenders?
(A) Sociology of law
(B) Etiology
(C) Penology
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- ‘Atavistic anomalies’ is a term coined by:
(A) Edwin Sutherland
(B) Lombroso
(C) Jeremy Bentham
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Juvenile Justice System Act was passed in:
(A) 2000
(B) 2002
(C) 2012
(D) 2018
Answer: D
- ‘Social disorganization reduces social capital and collective efficacy, increasing crime’ is the argument of:
(A) Glueck & Glueck
(B) Robert Ezra Park
(C) Sampson
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- A peeping Tom (peeks into windows for sexual thrill) is considered a crime against:
(A) Property
(B) Person
(C) Society
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- Phrenology says crime trends might be determined by examination of:
(A) Body type
(B) Skull shape
(C) Genes
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- According to August Aichorn, delinquency could be caused by a lack of parental love, developing:
(A) A regulated id
(B) An overdeveloped ego
(C) An underdeveloped superego
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- Which of the following is NOT a cause of juvenile delinquency?
(A) Neglected homes
(B) Policy inefficiency
(C) Lack of proper guidance
(D) None of these
Answer: B
- A mutual feeling between hostage and hostage-taker due to prolonged negotiation is known as:
(A) Camaraderie
(B) Sympathy
(C) Successful negotiation
(D) Stockholm syndrome
Answer: D
- Who coined the sociological terminology ‘functionalism’?
(A) Robert K. Merton and Talcott Parsons
(B) Cesare Beccaria and Cesare Lombroso
(C) Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim
(D) None of these
Answer: C
- The most common reason for not reporting violent crime is that the victim:
(A) Fears future victimization by the same offender
(B) Considers the crime a private matter
(C) None of these
(D) —
Answer: A
CSS Criminology MCQs 2025
Transcribed from a video walkthrough of the CSS 2025 paper that reads out the correct answer for each item. The full A/B/C/D option lists were not stated, so options are shown only where well-established; the correct answer is given for every question. A few items were partly garbled in the audio and are marked accordingly.
- The term ‘criminology’ is derived from the combination of two words. They are:
Answer: ‘Crimen’ (Latin) + ‘logia’ (Greek for ‘study of’)
- Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual but a process of group interaction through which one individual is defined as deviant?
Answer: Labeling Theory
- Who first introduced the notion of ‘anomie’ into sociology?
Answer: Emile Durkheim
- In the mid-1960s, Robert L. Burgess and Ronald L. Akers presented their differential ____ theory of crime.
Answer: Differential Association-Reinforcement theory
- Which of the following processes focuses on individual offenders and emphasizes the possibility of changing their behavior?
Answer: Rehabilitation
- Which of the following is NOT an index crime?
Answer: Fraud
- Who wrote the famous monograph ‘On Crimes and Punishments’ in 1764?
Answer: Cesare Beccaria
- ____ is defined as non-conformity to a given set of norms that are accepted by a significant number of people in society.
Answer: Deviance
- White-collar crime has low visibility because it goes undetected in the context of everyday business transactions.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: TRUE (low visibility)
- Crimes that are conducted over the Internet or other computer networks are called:
Answer: Cyber crimes
- As per Section 5 of the Probation of Offenders Ordinance, an offender of an offense under Section 392 PPC cannot be released on probation.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: TRUE (cannot be released) — section number partly unclear in source
- R.K. Merton argued that when an individual experiences strain due to inability to achieve culturally accepted goals by socially acceptable means, he may adopt an alternative mode of adaptation termed:
(A) Conformist
(B) Innovator
(C) Ritualist
(D) Rebel
Answer: Innovators
- Under Section 562 of the CrPC, the court has power to release an offender on probation if he is of:
Answer: Good conduct
- The Parliament and the Constitution are instruments of which type of justice?
Answer: Political justice
- Article 123 of the Police Order 2002 empowers any police officer not below a certain rank to give direction against serious disorder at a place of amusement.
Answer: Rank partly garbled in source (officer ‘not below the rank of ____’)
- Lombroso claimed that biological failings draw out criminal behavior.
(A) TRUE
(B) FALSE
Answer: TRUE
- What does UCR stand for?
Answer: Uniform Crime Report
- Crime mapping shows the ____ of a crime.
Answer: Location
- The intent to commit the criminal act is known as:
Answer: Mens rea
- No police officer shall engage in any private employment while a member of the police establishment, as provided by Article ____ of the Police Order 2002.
Answer: Article 117 (as stated in source)
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Years Not Yet Fully Reproduced
The MCQ portions for CSS Criminology 2017, 2018, and 2022 are not fully reproduced here because reliable text-based MCQ sets with complete options and answers were not available in the source material. These years may exist in scanned FPSC papers or other PDF files, but they should be transcribed carefully to avoid mistakes.
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CSS Criminology MCQs FAQs
How many MCQs are asked in CSS Criminology?
The CSS Criminology paper usually includes 20 compulsory MCQs in Question No. 1. Each MCQ carries one mark, making the objective portion worth 20 marks.
Are CSS Criminology past paper MCQs repeated?
Exact MCQs may or may not be repeated, but important topics are often repeated. These include criminological theories, famous criminologists, punishment, penology, victimology, juvenile justice, cybercrime, policing, probation, parole, and criminal justice institutions.
Which topics are most important for CSS Criminology MCQs?
Important topics include classical school, positivist school, strain theory, social disorganization theory, labeling theory, anomie, penology, probation, parole, juvenile delinquency, white-collar crime, cybercrime, forensic science, policing, and criminal justice system.
Are these CSS Criminology MCQs enough for preparation?
These MCQs are useful for revision and understanding past paper trends, but they should not be your only source. You should also study the full CSS Criminology syllabus, past subjective questions, standard books, and updated laws.
How should I prepare CSS Criminology MCQs?
Read the syllabus first, revise key concepts, make short notes of theorists and books, practise past paper MCQs year-wise, and revise important legal terms regularly. Also focus on repeated names such as Cesare Beccaria, Cesare Lombroso, Raffaele Garofalo, Edwin Sutherland, Emile Durkheim, Robert K. Merton, Michel Foucault, John Augustus, and Sir Robert Peel.
Conclusion
CSS Criminology past paper MCQs are very helpful for understanding the objective pattern of the exam. By practising these year-wise MCQs, you can revise important theories, criminologists, legal concepts, and criminal justice terms in a focused way. However, always remember that MCQs should be used as a revision tool along with complete syllabus preparation.
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