UGC NET Criminology study guide
UGC NET Criminology · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
UGC-NET (University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test) is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), which has been entrusted by the UGC with the task of determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for 'Assistant Professor' as well as 'Junior Research Fellowship and Assistant Professor' in Indian universities and colleges. It is delivered as a Computer Based Test (CBT), a mode in use since December 2018. The award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and/or eligibility for Assistant Professorship depends on aggregate performance across Paper-I and Paper-II; candidates qualifying only for Assistant Professorship are not eligible for JRF consideration. Candidates who clear the Assistant Professorship eligibility test remain governed by the rules and regulations of the concerned universities, colleges or State Governments for recruitment. Topics on this exam: Paper-I and Paper-II (Criminology). The UGC NET Criminology study guide has 2 sections and about 848 words.
01Paper-I: Teaching and Research Aptitude
Paper-I is the common paper every UGC NET candidate writes: 50 questions at 2 marks each, no negative marking, sat alongside the 100-question subject paper in a single 3-hour computer-based test. It is deliberately broad - teaching aptitude, research aptitude, comprehension, communication, mathematical and logical reasoning, data interpretation, ICT, people–development–environment, and the Indian higher-education system - with roughly five questions per unit, so no unit can be skipped. Teaching aptitude - levels of teaching (memory, understanding, reflective), maxims of teaching, Bloom's taxonomy and its 2001 revision, Gagné's nine events of instruction, constructivist approaches (Piaget, Vygotsky), and formative versus summative assessment. Research aptitude - types of research, variables and hypotheses, sampling, reliability and validity, scales of measurement, parametric versus non-parametric tests, Type I and Type II error, and publication ethics including plagiarism and citation norms.
424 words, about 2 min02Paper-II: Criminology
Paper-II - Criminology (subject code 68) - is the 100-question, 200-mark subject paper. It rewards a working command of criminological theory plus current Indian criminal-justice detail: crime causation, criminal justice administration and human rights, penology and victimology, forensic science and investigation, cyber and economic/organised crime, research methods and statistics, and comparative criminal justice. Classical versus positivist - Beccaria (1764), Bentham and deterrence versus Lombroso's born criminal and atavism, Ferri's law of criminal saturation, Garofalo's "natural crime" (offence against pity and probity). Sociological - Durkheim's normality of crime; Merton's five adaptations (conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion); Sutherland's nine propositions of differential association; Sykes and Matza's five neutralisation techniques; Hirschi's four social bonds (attachment, commitment, involvement, belief); Cohen and Felson's routine activity triad (motivated offender, suitable target, absent capable guardian).
424 words, about 2 min