Ch11 Exam Prep Crimes Against Public Order And Morality - Complete Test Bank Essential Criminal Law 3e with Answers by Matthew Lippman. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 11: Crimes Against Public Order and Morality
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Under the common law, acts that disturb or tend to disturb the tranquility of the citizenry are known as ______.
A. breach of the peace
B. disorderly conduct
C. law against noise
D. riot
Learning Objective: 11-2: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Under the common law, the collection of three or more persons with the purpose to engage in an unlawful act was known as ______.
A. disorderly conduct
B. riot
C. unlawful assembly
D. gang
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Riot
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. Offenses such as public drunkenness, vagrancy, loitering, panhandling, graffiti, and urinating and sleeping in public fall into which one of the following categories?
A. public exposure
B. public indecency
C. status offense
D. private indecency
Learning Objective: 11-4: It is constitutional for a city to adopt a law that makes it a criminal offense for two or more known gang members to assemble together on a public street.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Public Indecencies: Quality-of-Life Crimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Standing in public with no apparent purpose is the definition of ______.
A. rout
B. loitering
C. unlawful assembly
D. vagrancy
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Vagrancy and Loitering
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. Which state is the only state in the United States where prostitution is legal?
A. Illinois
B. New York
C. California
D. Nevada
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. 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
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. An individual who wanders the streets with no apparent means of earning a living is known as a(an) ______.
A. vagrant
B. bum
C. wanderer
D. indigent
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Vagrancy and Loitering
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Engaging in sexual intercourse or other sexual acts in exchange for money or other items of value is known as ______.
A. pandering
B. pimping
C. solicitation
D. prostitution
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. 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
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Riot
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Encouraging and inducing another person to become or remain a prostitute is known as ______.
A. pandering
B. prostitution
C. hooking
D. pimping
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. 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
Learning Objective: 11-1: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. 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
Learning Objective: 11-2: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. 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
Learning Objective: 11-2: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which country’s law can vagrancy be traced?
A. Spain
B. China
C. Germany
D. England
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Vagrancy and Loitering
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. 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
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Vagrancy and Loitering
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. All of the following is NOT a finding by the Illinois Legislature concerning the peril posed by gangs?
A. Communities are terrorized and plundered by street gangs.
B. Gangs are controlled by criminally sophisticated adults who threaten young people into carrying out gang activity.
C. Gangs present a clear and present danger to public order and safety.
D. Gangs are primarily comprised by low-income minority males.
Learning Objective:
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gangs
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. 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
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Homelessness
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Approximately ______ of all arrests are for acts threatening public morality.
A. 50%
B. 60%
C. 70%
D. 90%
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Overreach of Criminal Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. Which state is the only state in which prostitution is legal?
A. Illinois
B. California
C. Nevada
D. New York
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Sex trafficking can be subject to punish of up to how many years in prison?
A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. life
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. ______ is the encouraging and inducing of another to become or remain a prostitute.
A. Prostitution
B. Hooking
C. Pandering
D. Pimping
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. 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
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. 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
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. 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
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Which one of the following examples is NOT a victimless crime?
A. trespassing
B. prostitution
C. possession of obscene materials
D. gambling
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Overreach of Criminal Law
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. Which court case established the three-part test for obscenity?
A. New York v. Feber
B. Miller v. California
C. United States v. Miller
D. Roth v. United States
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. Which one of the followings is NOT the consequences of what some consider to be the overreach of criminal law?
A. Making an activity illegal means that there is little legal competition allowing for inflated prices.
B. Condemnation of illegal activities is undermined by the fact that the same activity is legalized in other jurisdictions.
C. People involved in these criminal activities are driven into a criminal subculture and may be victimized or become involved in other crimes.
D. Victimless offenses are just as harmful if not more as offenses where there is an identifiable victim.
Learning Objective: 11-1: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals. Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Overreach of Criminal Law
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. ______ 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
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
29. Approximately do how many states have laws prohibiting revenge porn?
A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Medium
30. ______ 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
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Easy
31. Which one of the following activity involves with procuring a prostitute for another individual, arranging a meeting for the purpose of prostitution, transporting an individual to a location for the purpose of prostitution, receiving money from a prostitute knowing that it was earned from prostitution, or owning, managing, or leasing a house of prostitution business.
A. Prostitution
B. Hooking
C. Pandering
D. Pimping
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Medium
32. Which of the following is not considered mens rea for prostitution?
A. induce
B. entice
C. seduce
D. attract
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. Juliet went to Independence Park to protest the recent budget cuts to education in Clark County. It was a spur of the moment thing and as a result she was alone in her efforts. Nonetheless she yelled and marched and held various signs up to get her point across. She is arrested and charged with rioting. Is this charge appropriate in the given circumstance?
A. No, she has committed aggravated disorderly conduct.
B. No, she has the right to freedom of expression.
C. Yes, she was disturbing the peace in a public place.
D. No, a riot requires more than just one person.
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Riot
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. Mens rea for disorderly conduct is which of the following?
A. knowingly
B. intentionally
C. recklessness
D. depends on the state statute
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Riot
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. Which one of the followings is when a masseur or masseuse stimulates 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.
A. prostitution
B. masturbation for hire
C. lewdness
D. fornication
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. 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
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Riot
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. 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
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Vagrancy and Loitering
Difficulty Level: Medium
38. 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
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Homelessness
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. 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
Learning Objective: 11-4: It is constitutional for a city to adopt a law that makes it a criminal offense for two or more known gang members to assemble together on a public street.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Public Indecencies: Quality-of-Life Crimes
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. 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
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. In order to standardize the crime of disorderly conduct, the mens rea for disorderly conduct is the same for all 50 states.
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. In order to satisfy the actus reus of prostitution, sexual intercourse must be exchanged for money or other consideration.
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. One of the concerns relating to animal cruelty is that it is believed to encourage aggression toward humans.
Learning Objective: 11-10: Discuss the reason for the crime of cruelty to animals.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Cruelty to Animals
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. 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.
Learning Objective: 11-4: It is constitutional for a city to adopt a law that makes it a criminal offense for two or more known gang members to assemble together on a public street.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Public Indecencies: Quality-of-Life Crimes
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Crimes against public order and morality have been criticized as punishing victimless crimes.
Learning Objective: 11-1: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals. Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. Offenses such as disorderly conduct constitute a significant percentage of arrests made in a given year.
Learning Objective: 11-2: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. The crime of lewdness involves conduct that is obscene.
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. The crime of disorderly conduct does not take into account whether the conduct tends to provoke a disturbance.
Learning Objective: 11-2: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Sleeping outdoors is an example of an act punished under the crime of vagrancy.
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Vagrancy and Loitering
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. 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.
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Riot
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Some family disputes within the home may be charged with disorderly conduct.
Learning Objective: 11-2: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. At the common law, rout was defined as the collection of three or more persons with the purpose to engage in an unlawful act.
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Riot
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. Broken windows theory was identified by James Q. Wilson and Edwin Southerland.
Learning Objective: 11-4: It is constitutional for a city to adopt a law that makes it a criminal offense for two or more known gang members to assemble together on a public street.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Public Indecencies: Quality-of-Life Crimes
Difficulty Level: Easy
14. Local ordinances have the effect of making it a crime to be homeless.
Learning Objective: 11-6: The only difference between the legal definition of obscenity and the legal definition of child pornography is that child pornography involves the use of children.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Homelessness
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Gang loitering has enabled street gangs to establish control over identifiable areas, to intimidate others from entering the areas, or to conceal illegal activities.
Learning Objective:
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gangs
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Prostitution is a felony.
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
17. Disorderly conduct addresses relatively minor acts of criminality.
Learning Objective: 11-2: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. It is legal only in three states to buy, sell, exhibit, produce, advertise, distribute, or possess with the intent to distribute child pornography.
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. The MPC includes specific sections on cruelty to animals.
Learning Objective: 11-10: Discuss the reason for the crime of cruelty to animals.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. Define disorderly conduct.
Learning Objective: 11-1: An individual breaches the peace when he or she engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct that causes a violent response by two or more individuals. Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Disorderly Conduct
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Although there are countless arrests and prosecutions involving crime against the quality of life, why do they receive limited attention?
Learning Objective: 11-4: It is constitutional for a city to adopt a law that makes it a criminal offense for two or more known gang members to assemble together on a public street.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Public Indecencies: Quality-of-Life Crimes
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. What is the difference between vagrancy and loitering?
Learning Objective: 11-5: Prostitutes as well as customers may be guilty of soliciting or loitering for the purpose of prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Vagrancy and Loitering
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. What are some of the critics of the anti-gang efforts?
Learning Objective:
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Gangs
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. List some of victimless crimes.
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Overreach of Criminal Law
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. What is the difference between adultery and fornication?
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. What are included in the three-part test for obscenity.
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. What are some of the criticisms or challenges again public order crimes?
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. What is the difference between lewdness and indecent exposure?
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. What is revenge porn?
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. What is the difference between an unlawful assembly and a riot?
Learning Objective: 11-3: A vagrancy law likely would be held constitutional that makes it a criminal offense for individuals to appear in public who are identified by the police as thieves or drug dealers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Riot
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Distinguish the crime of lewdness from the crime of indecent exposure.
Learning Objective: 11-9: Understand the definition of obscenity and the difference between obscenity and child pornography.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Obscenity
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Discuss the rationale for punishing cruelty to animals.
Learning Objective: 11-10: Discuss the reason for the crime of cruelty to animals.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Cruelty to Animals
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Explain the various reasons for criminalizing prostitution.
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. What is prostitution? Why is prostitution considered a crime? List and define other types of prostitution-related offenses. Should these acts be considered criminal? Why or why not?
Learning Objective: 11-8: Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Crime of Prostitution
Difficulty Level: Medium
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