Deck 6: Public Order Crimes and Offenses Against Public Decency

Question 1

Public decency offenses are harmful to our moral values and our social fabric.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Public order and public decency crimes are similar in every way.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Identify the common features between public order and public decency offenses.

Answer 3

Both types of offenses are typically misdemeanors, both generate sharp debate as to whether they should be subject to criminal punishment, and both are crimes against morality raise constitutional issues.

Question 4

Public order and public decency offenses raise constitutional issues that involve all of the following amendments except?

A) First Amendment
B) Fifth Amendment
C) Tenth Amendment
D) Fourteenth Amendment

Question 5

Only state law punish public order and crimes against decency.

Question 6

Public order offenses refer to a loosely connected group of actions that occur in private and cause disruption.

Question 7

Some offenses that fall under the public order heading could be considered serious crimes.

Question 8

Historically, public order offenses were viewed as serious criminal incidents.

Question 9

Which of the following is not an alcohol related public order crime?

A) Driving under the influence
B) Drunkenness
C) Prostitution
D) Liquor law violations

Question 10

Alcohol related public order crimes have the highest rate of arrests.

Question 11

Alcohol related crimes have the lowest potential for causing harm to uninvolved third parties.

Question 12

Sometimes there is an overlap between public order offenses.

Question 13

Which of the following offenses had the least number of public order arrests in 2010.

A) Driving under the influence
B) Gambling
C) Vagrancy
D)Weapons law violations

Question 14

Which of the following offenses had the highest number of public order arrests in 2010?

A) Vagrancy
B) Liquor laws
C) Drunkenness
D) Driving under the influence

Question 15

Explain the purpose of vagrancy laws.

Question 16

Vagrancy statutes punish a person's movement from one place to another.

Question 17

Laws that punish loitering are controversial because they result in racially discriminatory enforcement.

Question 18

The Florida anti-loitering laws draw directly from the Model Penal Code.

Question 19

Violators of the anti-gang ordinance in Chicago could be subject to which of the following?

A) Six months in jail
B) A 500-dollar fine
C) 120 hours of community service
D) All of the above

Question 20

In a three-year period, Chicago police arrested more than _________ people for violated the ordinance.

A) 10,000 people
B) 25,000 people
C) 37,000 people
D) 42,000 people

Question 21

The Floyd v. New York (2013) case raised a challenge under which of the following amendments?

A) First Amendment
B) Fifth Amendment
C) Sixth Amendment
D) Fourteenth Amendment

Question 22

In Floyd v. New York (2013), the defendant claimed that the __________had been violated

A) Right to free speech
B) Right to bear arms
C) Due process clause
D) Equal protection clause

Question 23

Over ________ percent of the Stop and Frisk stops in New York between 2004 and 2012 involved which of the following racial groups?

A) Blacks and Whites
B) Blacks and Hispanics
C) Hispanics and Asian Americans
D) Hispanics and Whites

Question 24

Which of the following groups were more likely to be found with a weapon or contraband during the 2004-2012 Stop and Frisk stops?

A) Hispanics
B) Blacks
C) Whites
D) Asian Americans

Question 25

In 2013, there were approximately ________ homeless people living in the United States.

A) 250,000
B) 456,000
C) 610,000
D) 972,000

Question 26

In 2013, __________ percent of the homeless were individuals living on their own.

A) 25
B) 38
C) 51
D) 62

Question 27

It is estimated that one in ________ children are homeless.

A) 26
B) 39
C) 45
D) 56

Question 28

Which of the following states has the highest concentration of homeless?

A) New York
B) Texas
C) Florida
D) California

Question 29

Which of the following states discussed in the chapter has the lowest concentration of homeless?

A) Florida
B) New York
C) Massachusetts
D) California

Question 30

Many homeless do not live in shelters.

Question 31

All homeless individuals report their status of homelessness.

Question 32

In 2013, the National Alliance to End Homelessness reported that _______ percent of the homeless population was unsheltered.

A) 25
B) 40
C) 61
D) 75

Question 33

Which of the following does not fall under the "unsheltered" category, as stipulated by the National Alliance to End Homelessness?

A) Living in cars
B) Living in a campground
C) Living in a shelter
D) Living in an abandoned building

Question 34

Which of the following cases highlights the tension between the activities of the homeless and the reach of the criminal law?

A) State v. Boehler (2011)
B) Floyd v. New York (2013)
C) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Craven (2013)
D) Whatley v. State (1999)

Question 35

Alcohol related offenses include which of the following?

A) Violating open container laws
B) Sale of alcohol to minors
C) Driving under the influence
D) Public Drunkenness
E) All of the above

Question 36

Alcohol related offenses could be classified as misdemeanors and felonies.

Question 37

Which of the following are considered to be alternate names for those who drive while drunk?

A) DUI, Driving under the influence
B) DWI, Driving while intoxicated
C) OWI, Operating while impaired
D) All of the above

Question 38

The definition of vehicle can include __________.

A) trucks
B) motorcycles
C) watercraft
D) tricycles

Question 39

Federal, state, and local laws vary as to the level of alcohol required to trigger criminal punishment.

Question 40

The general threshold for drunk driving is a drive with a blood alcohol level of _______ percent or higher.

A) .05
B) .07
C) .08
D) .10

Question 41

The __________ the blood alcohol level, the ___________ the sanction.

A) lower; higher
B) higher; the greater
C) higher; the lower
D) All punishments are the same regardless of blood alcohol level

Question 42

In which of the following cases did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold state laws that punish public drunkenness?

A) State v. Boehler (2011)
B) Floyd v. New York (2013)
C) Powell v. Texas (1968)
D) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Craven (2003)

Question 43

Leroy Powell argued that his conviction violated the _______ Amendment.

A) Second
B) Fourth
C) Eighth
D) Fourteenth

Question 44

What did the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act recommend?

Question 45

How do the Mississippi and South Dakota laws differ?

Question 46

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed in

A) 1965.
B) 1972.
C) 1984.
D) 1989.

Question 47

In some cases, individuals who sell minors alcohol could face criminal penalties.

Question 48

What is the paradox that is usually referred to in regards to the age limit for minors?

Question 49

In 2011, there were over _________ fatal firearm incidents.

A) 5,000
B) 7,000
C) 11,000
D) 21,000

Question 50

Today, the percentage of homeless with guns is approximately 75%.

Question 51

The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of gun ownership in McDonald v. Chicago (2010).

Question 52

Approximately _______ million Americans have concealed carry permits.

A) 2
B) 5
C) 8
D) 11

Question 53

The George Zimmerman case took place in which state?

A) California
B) Idaho
C) Florida
D) Alabama

Question 54

In 2013 there were _______ shootings on or near a college campus.

A) 15
B) 21
C) 27
D) 35

Question 55

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in 1866.

Question 56

Animal cruelty is a criminal offense in only 25 states.

Question 57

Animal cruelty laws punish only neglect.

Question 58

Which of the following are public decency offenses?

A) Prostitution
B) Adultery
C) Sodomy
D) All of the above

Question 59

In which of the following cases did the Court hold that sex between consenting adult males is protected under the Fourteenth Amendments due process clause.

A) Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
B) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Craven (2003)
C) Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
D) Martin v. Ziherl (2005)

Question 60

Under a Virginia law, individuals who were unmarried individuals who had sex with another person were charged up to _______ dollars.

A) 100
B) 250
C) 400
D) 750

Question 61

In almost 50% of states, adultery is a felony.

Question 62

In which of the following states is adultery not a felony?

A) Idaho
B) Massachusetts
C) Michigan
D) California

Question 63

In which of the following cases was the court asked to define public place?

A) Martin v. Ziherl (2005)
B) Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
C) Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
D) Whatley v. State (1999)

Question 64

Research findings indicate that marijuana is a gateway drug.