Exam 13: Public Order Crimes

In a series of decisions culminating in _________, the Supreme Court articulated the view that obscenity, really meaning pornography, is outside the protection of the Constitution.

During the Civil War, what drug addiction among veterans became known as the "soldier's disease"?

National surveys of inmates in jails and prison show that about _____ percent of the convicted offenders incarcerated for violent crimes consumed alcohol immediately before the crimes.

After analyzing studies on the relationship between pornography and violence, the Attorney General's Commission concluded that nonviolent and nondegrading pornography is not significantly associated with crime and aggression.

Which of the following statements best defines bootlegging?

Which of the following statements is True about alcohol?

Crack is more expensive than powdered cocaine, slow-acting, and ineffective.

Following the ratification of the _________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the voting age was lowered to 18 years, and many states also lowered their minimum-age requirement for the purchase and sale of alcoholic beverages.

As long ago as the late 1940s and the early 1950s, the pioneering Kinsey reports provided evidence about the enormous gap between the goals of law and actual behavior. According to these studies, of the total white male population in the United States, ______ percent had some experience with prostitutes.

During the Civil War, heroin addiction among veterans was referred to as the "soldier's disease."

The Volstead Act of 1919 defined any beverage that contained ½ of 1 percent alcohol as intoxicating liquor.

The cash obtained from drug sales in the United States is physically smuggled out of the country because it cannot be legally exported without disclosure. This describes what phenomenon?

Which of the following is a criticism of the educational approach to drug treatment?

In the context of sexual morality offenses, _____ is the illegal sexual activity between two people when it would otherwise be legal if not for their age.

Most of the federal antidrug legislation has been drawn together in Title ____ of the United States Code, the collection of all federal laws.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the government of Bolivia was completely corrupt from the drug trade, as evidenced by the minister of justice being referred to as the

As per common law, which of the following statements is True about sodomy?

The first drug court was established in _________ in 1989.

Since the first drug court was established, more than __________ similar courts have been established in counties throughout the country.

During the 1960s, _________ became one of the major drugs of choice in the United States among white, middle-class young people who identified themselves as anti-establishment.