Exam 10: The Limits of Social Control: Policing Vice

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No other moral issue has engaged the courts to the extent that ______________ has.

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In Planned Parenthood v. Danforth, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Missouri law that required married women to obtain their husband's consent before having an abortion.

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The term homosexual was not coined until which year?

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Of all the mood-altering substances, marijuana is most directly linked to crime.

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Humans certainly have a fondness for ingesting substances that:

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In the early part of the twentieth century, several cities instituted special "morals courts" to deal with:

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In which country are all parties-prostitutes, pimps, procurers, and customers-legally sanctioned as long as they remain in prescribed areas?

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The first U.S. Supreme Court decision interpreting the scope of the free exercise clause was in:

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The 1910 Mann Act prohibited white slavery.

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What constitutes "vice" varies significantly across:

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In which case did the New Mexico Human Rights Commission's find that a business woman was guilty of discrimination and in violation of the state's public accommodation law when she refused service to a same-sex couple based on religious grounds?

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In all its forms, what has been strongly criticized by religious leaders and conservatives as eroding moral standards by representing deviant sexuality as normal and by separating sex from love and marriage?

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Prostitution has long been referred to as the world's oldest profession.

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In modern America, the equivalent to ancient Greece's ______________ would be those working for elite escort services.

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For many years, homosexuality was considered by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to be a crime.

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As long as women have become pregnant without having the support of a committed mate, they have sought a quickening.

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In modern America, the equivalent to ancient Greece's auletrides would be those working for less selective services.

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What was never considered a crime in English common law because lawmakers could not envision them doing such a thing?

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In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that the company involved in the case does not have to provide contraceptive methods to its employees that violate the Christian beliefs of the company's owners?

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According to the text, in 2016 synthetic and commonly prescribed drugs accounted for more than ____________ the deaths from heroin overdoses.

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