Deck 9: Offenses Involving Morality and Decency

Question 1

This offense was an ecclesiastical offense under the common law and was punishable by death, but today has been eliminated from most state statutes:

A) bigamy
B) adultery
C) polygamy
D) prostitution

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The PROTECT Act criminalized the following in relation to virtual child pornography except:

A) Offering to sell it saying it involves real children
B) Offering to share it saying it involves real children
C) Offering to share it believing it to be real children
D) Offering to sell it as virtual child pornography

Answer 2

D

Question 3

This is when a minor uses a computer, or any other device capable of electronic data transmission or distribution, to transmit or distribute to another minor any photograph or video of any person which depicts nudity:

A) incest
B) sexting
C) prostitution
D) adultery

Answer 3

B

Question 4

This means offering to, engaging in, or asking others to engage in sexual conduct, for a fee (or pecuniary gain):

A) solicitation of johns
B) solicitation of prostitution
C) public sexual intercourse
D) solicitation of a stripper

Question 5

This is defined as engaging in a marriage while legally married to another at the same time:

A) incest
B) adultery
C) polygamy
D) bigamy

Question 6

This is defined as the intermarriage, or sexual relations without marriage, between a man and woman related to each other in any of the degrees of consanguinity or affinity within which marriage is prohibited:

A) adultery
B) incest
C) bigamy
D) polygamy

Question 7

This refers to when the state takes the place of the parent when the parent is unable or unwilling to perform caregiver functions:

A) patriae elect
B) court parent
C) parents electi
D) parens patriae

Question 8

This is the offense of having a plurality of husbands or wives:

A) polygamy
B) bigamy
C) monogamy
D) incest

Question 9

Intentionally induced expulsion of the fetus at so early a period of uterogestation that it has not acquired the power of sustaining an independent life defines:

A) miscarriage
B) feticide
C) murder
D) abortion

Question 10

This Supreme Court decision held that the Texas Criminal Abortion Statute was unconstitutional:

A) Doe v. Bolton
B) Roe v. Wade
C) Planned Parenthood v. Casey
D) Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network of Western New York

Question 11

Under the Model Penal Code, prostitution is a petty misdemeanor, while in some instances, _______ is a felony of the third degree.

A) solicitation
B) promoting prostitution
C) loitering
D) living in a house of ill-repute

Question 12

This describes material of a nature that its predominant appeal is to the prurient interest and it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in describing or representing such matters.

A) pornography
B) obscenity
C) indecent material
D) uncensored material

Question 13

The U.S. Supreme Court case defining obscenity is ______.

A) Texas v. Johnson
B) Roe v. Wade
C) Miller v. California
D) Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition

Question 14

A display of prurient child nudity, child sexual activity, or presence of a child in relation to sexual activity.

A) solicitation of a minor
B) pornography
C) child pornography
D) prostitution

Question 15

This describes a parent, guardian, or other person legally charged with the care or custody of a minor failing or refusing to exercise reasonable diligence in the control of such child to prevent him from becoming a neglected dependent or delinquent child.

A) child sexual abuse
B) endangering the welfare of a minor
C) assault to a child
D) domestic violence

Question 16

Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas still have laws regulating and restricting the sale of vibrators and other sex aids.

Question 17

Pornography that utilizes computer-generated images of children is:

A) bigamy
B) virtual child pornography
C) solicitation of a minor
D) prostitution

Question 18

The Model Penal Code makes it clear that the partner of the married person is also guilty of bigamy or polygamy if he or she has knowledge that the other party was married.

Question 19

Under the Model Penal Code, the crime of incest is limited to blood relatives plus the relationship of parent and child by adoption, thus a relationship between a stepchild and stepparent may not be defined as incest unless there is a legal adoption.

Question 20

Filial responsibility laws address a duty to care for aged and infirm parents.