Exam 14: Public Order Crime

Define prostitution.

Describe the typical response by the criminal justice system regarding prostitution.

A major drug of concern in the twenty-first century is ______.

Which of the following types of crimes represent the bulk of police work?

Identify four categories of drugs that are abused. Include a specific example from each category.

Which of the following is an example of public order crime?

The practice of prostitution emerged in the 1800s during the Industrial Revolution, and appears to be a phenomenon unique to capitalist societies.

Which of the following refers to sexual activity between individuals who are viewed as too closely biologically related?

All of the following are arguments in support of decriminalizing many public order crimes except ______.

Crimes without victims are described as "legislated morality" in which there is no identifiable victim other than the person himself or herself.

Secretive drinking, occasional blackouts or amnesia, faking alibis, and a compulsion to drink are accompanied by a loss of control.

Which of the following phases of alcohol addiction involves occasional blackouts or amnesia, faking alibis, and a complusion to drink?

Which of the following made it necessary to obtain a doctor's prescription to legally possess narcotics and cocaine?

Identify and describe the phases of alcoholism as identified by Jellinek.

Problem drinking also known as alcoholism-a dependency on or addiction to alcohol.

What is the significance of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act?

Alcoholism or problem drinking is no longer the number one drug abuse problem in the United States.

In the United States, public drunkenness is covered by all of the following laws except ______.

The extension of the criminal law into appropriate areas of moral conduct criminalize activities and stigmatize their participants.

The National Minium Drinking Age Act sets the United States apart from other developed Western nations.