LLB 3 years Sem 4 Criminology and Penology Solved Question Papers with Answers 2011 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes
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Thirty-one papers are answered here, from November 2010 to May 2026. LL.B. Semester 4 and B.L.S. Semester 8 sit the same paper, so the same answers appear on both. The papers come in four shapes: eighteen 100-mark papers from 2010 to 2019, the online paper of 2021-22, seven 60:40 papers from November 2022 and five 75:25 papers from May 2024. Of the 741 printed questions only 462 are distinct, because 107 questions are printed word for word more than once and fill 386 of the places. Five are set on ten papers each: the two-mark questions defining criminology, the crime syndicate, organised crime and victimology, and the short note on the neo-classical school. The multiple factor theory of crime causation is a long question in the same words on eight papers, and half of one on five more.
The long questions are spread widely. A question on prisons or prisoners is among them on 19 of the 30 printed papers, the schools of criminology (Lombroso included) on 24, juvenile justice on 16, and capital punishment on 12, in seven different forms of words. Even seven topics (the schools, Lombroso, the multiple factor theory, prisons, juvenile justice, the police and capital punishment) give enough long questions on only 19 of the 30 papers, and it takes twelve to cover them all. The October 2025 paper shows why: three of its five long questions are on general principles of criminal law, namely the administration of justice, mens rea, and act, omission and the stages of a crime.
The problems recur too. Nine situational problems are set on more than one paper, often with the names changed, and five came back in 2024 or 2025 after six to fifteen years. The May 2025 75:25 paper reprints three of its four problems, from November 2010, May 2017 and November 2019. A repeated problem carries the same answer on every paper, stated under the Sanhitas of 2023.
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