Exam 11: Crimes Against Public Order and Morality

Riots are punished separately from acts of disorderly conduct because the collective action involved in a riot poses a greater threat to society and is less easily deterred than the act of a single individual.

Under the common law, which of the following occurred when three or more individuals engaged in an unlawful act of violence?

Which country's law can vagrancy be traced?

Sleeping outdoors is an example of an act punished under the crime of vagrancy.

______ involves obtaining sexual gratification from viewing another individual's sex organs or sexual activities and typically is punished under what are termed "peeping Tom laws."

What is revenge porn?

In order for an offense to consider as riot, how many individuals need to be present?

Broken windows theory was identified by James Q. Wilson and Edwin Southerland.

The broken windows theory is based on the belief that unresolved issues relating to public indecency and quality of life crimes lead to the decay of a neighborhood.

What is the difference between adultery and fornication?

What are the two types of crimes' statutes have historically been employed to detain and keep "undesirables" off the streets.

Which Supreme Court case held that obscenity was not constitutionally protected?

According to James Q. Wilson and George Kelling, which one of the following crimes would NOT be an immediate threat to their quality of life?

The crime of lewdness involves conduct that is obscene.

Define disorderly conduct.

Which of the following is NOT one of the criminal classes of vagrants based on the English law?

Approximately do how many states have laws prohibiting revenge porn?

Every state punishes the purchase, sale, exhibition, production, advertisement, distribution, or possession with the intent to distribute which of the following?

Offenses such as disorderly conduct constitute a significant percentage of arrests made in a given year.

Sex trafficking can be subject to punish of up to how many years in prison?