Deck 11: Crimes Against Public Order and Morality

Question 1

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

A) pornography
B) erotica
C) child pornography
D) prostitution

Answer 1

C

Question 2

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

A) disorderly conduct
B) riot
C) unlawful assembly
D) melee

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

A) prostitution and vagrancy
B) loitering and prostitution
C) vagrancy and loitering
D) riot and prostitution

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Jenny and Chris recently ended their 6-year relationship after a huge argument. She made 500 flyers with his picture on it under the title "Jerk" and included his home address and phone number. She wanted him to experience public humiliation and ridicule. Under the common law, what type of offense might this be?

A) extrinsic breach of the peace
B) constructive breach of the peace
C) fighting words
D) disorderly conduct

Question 5

Which of the following acts is NOT considered as disorderly conduct with the purpose to cause public?

A) annoyance
B) fighting words
C) alarm or recklessly creating a risk
D) inconvenience

Question 6

Which country's law can vagrancy be traced?

A) Spain
B) China
C) Germany
D) England

Question 7

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

A) indigent and bum
B) incorrigible rogues
C) rogues and vagabonds
D) idle and disorderly persons

Question 8

In what case did the court find that a statute that prohibited all panhandling on city sidewalks and streets violated the First Amendment?

A) Pottinger v. City of Miami
B) Joyce v. City and County of San Francisco
C) Loper v. New York City Police
D) Gallo v. Acuna

Question 9

Approximately ______ of all arrests are for acts threatening public morality.

A) 50%
B) 60%
C) 70%
D) 90%

Question 10

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

A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) life

Question 11

Which of the following does NOT constitute promoting prostitution?

A) procuring a prostitute for a patron
B) soliciting a person to patronize a prostitute
C) procuring an inmate for a house of prostitution or a place in a house of prostitution for one who would be an inmate
D) stimulating the genital organs of another, whether resulting in orgasm or not, by manual or other bodily contact exclusive of sexual intercourse or by instrumental manipulation for money or the substantial equivalent thereof

Question 12

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

A) New York v. Ferber
B) Roth v. United States
C) Cleveland v. United States
D) People v. Barron

Question 13

Which court case involved an argument that the evidence did not support the charge against the defendants of inciting to riot and disorderly conduct.?

A) New York v. Ferber
B) Roth v. United States
C) Cleveland v. United States
D) People v. Upshaw

Question 14

______ is defined as public acts offending community standards, including the display of genitals, sexual intercourse, lewd sexual contact, and deviant sexual intercourse.

A) Indecent exposure
B) Obscenity
C) Pornography
D) Lewdness

Question 15

Approximately do how many states have laws prohibiting revenge porn?

A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 40

Question 16

______ 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."

A) Voyeurism
B) Lewdness
C) Indecent exposure
D) Child pornography

Question 17

Which of the following is not considered mens rea for prostitution?

A) induce
B) entice
C) seduce
D) attract

Question 18

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

A) one
B) two to three
C) four to five
D) more than five

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a behavior that is punishable by vagrancy?

A) begging
B) failing to support a wife and child
C) sleeping outdoors
D) having an affair with a neighbor

Question 20

Which of the following acts is NOT a target of increasing amount of enforcement?

A) trespassing in areas under bridges and adjacent to parks
B) failing to support a wife and child
C) sleeping in the parks and subways
D) aggressive panhandling

Question 21

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?

A) rape
B) public drunkenness
C) drug dealers
D) prostitutes

Question 22

False public alarms, prowling, desecration of graves, cruelty to animals, and public drunkenness would be considered as ______.

A) unlawful assembly
B) quality of life crimes
C) disorderly conduct
D) breach of the peace crimes

Question 23

In order to satisfy the actus reus of prostitution, sexual intercourse must be exchanged for money or other consideration.

Question 24

One of the concerns relating to animal cruelty is that it is believed to encourage aggression toward humans.

Question 25

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.

Question 26

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

Question 27

The crime of lewdness involves conduct that is obscene.

Question 28

The crime of disorderly conduct does not take into account whether the conduct tends to provoke a disturbance.

Question 29

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

Question 30

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.

Question 31

Some family disputes within the home may be charged with disorderly conduct.

Question 32

At the common law, rout was defined as the collection of three or more persons with the purpose to engage in an unlawful act.

Question 33

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

Question 34

Gang loitering has enabled street gangs to establish control over identifiable areas, to intimidate others from entering the areas, or to conceal illegal activities.

Question 35

Prostitution is a felony.

Question 36

The MPC includes specific sections on cruelty to animals.

Question 37

Define disorderly conduct.

Question 38

Although there are countless arrests and prosecutions involving crime against the quality of life, why do they receive limited attention?

Question 39

List some of victimless crimes.

Question 40

What is the difference between adultery and fornication?

Question 41

What are included in the three-part test for obscenity.

Question 42

What are some of the criticisms or challenges again public order crimes?

Question 43

What is revenge porn?

Question 44

Distinguish the crime of lewdness from the crime of indecent exposure.

Question 45

Discuss the rationale for punishing cruelty to animals.

Question 46

Explain the various reasons for criminalizing prostitution.