The Limits Of Social Control Ch10 Test Bank + Answers

CHAPTER 10

THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL CONTROL

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. The age of consent in most states today is ____, but it was ___ 130 years ago.

a) eighteen, sixteen

b) sixteen, ten

c) sixteen, twelve

d) eighteen, twelve

e) eighteen, ten

2. Vice crimes are

a) harmless.

b) consensual.

c) mala in se.

d) legal.

3. Most vice crimes were criminalized primarily because they were considered

a) immoral.

b) harmful.

c) mala in se.

d) habit forming.

4. The Morals Court in Chicago dealt primarily with what vice crimes?

a) drugs

b) homosexual sodomy

c) fornication and adultery

d) alcohol

5. Most anti-sodomy statutes in the United States in the twentieth century

a) defined sodomy as an act applicable to same-sex couples only.

b) defined sodomy as an act applicable to both same- and opposite-sex couples.

c) included fellatio in their definition.

d) a and c only.

e) b and c only.

6. Homosexuality

a) was discovered in the nineteenth century.

b) was defined as a separate category in the nineteenth century.

c) was considered a preference in the nineteenth century.

d) all of the above.

e) b and c only.

7. The American Psychiatric Association now considers homosexuality as a/an

a) disease.

b) preference.

c) choice.

d) orientation.

8. The case that invalidated all anti-sodomy laws in the United States was

a) Bowers v. Hardwick.

b) Lawrence v. Texas.

c) Texas v. Johnson.

d) Dungeon v. United Kingdom.

9. Prostitution

a) is sometimes engaged in voluntarily by prostitutes.

b) has been associated with religious communion.

c) has been considered a “necessary evil.”

d) all of the above.

e) a and c only.

10. Most jurisdictions in the United States first criminalized prostitution after the passage of the ____ by the U.S. Congress.

a) Mann Act

b) Mortensen Act

c) Harrison Act

d) Eighteenth Amendment

11. In Roe v. Butterworth, Roe claimed that Florida’s criminalization of prostitution

a) denied her due process rights to earn a living as she saw fit.

b) violated the privileges and immunity clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

c) violated her First Amendment rights to free expression.

d) violated her privacy rights.

e) a and b only.

12. In countries that have legalized prostitution,

a) prostitution has declined rapidly.

b) prostitution has greatly increased.

c) legalization has had no noticeable effect.

d) legalization has reduced illicit trafficking of women.

13. Prostitute rights groups favor

a) legalizing prostitution.

b) decriminalizing prostitution.

c) either legalizing or decriminalizing because they are the same.

d) the Swedish solution.

14. Sweden has

a) decriminalized and legalized prostitution.

b) decriminalized prostitution for prostitutes but maintained sanctions for their johns.

c) legalized prostitution but confined it to certain areas.

d) tolerated prostitution in massage parlors.

15. The current test for obscenity defined by the Supreme Court is the

a) Hicklin test.

b) Lil’ Wayne test.

c) Miller test.

d) Butterworth test.

16. According to the current test for obscenity, Mapplethorpe’s photograph of one man urinating into the mouth of another would be constitutionally protected

a) because anti-sodomy statutes are unconstitutional.

b) on First Amendment grounds.

c) because the taxpayer funded Mapplethorpe’s exhibition.

d) because the photo has artistic merit.

17. In which famous case did the Supreme Court lay down the obscenity test?

a) Miller v. California

b) Regina v. Hicklin

c). Roe v. Butterworth

d) United States v. Lil’ Wayne

18. Most feminists oppose pornography on all grounds except that it

a) causes rape.

b) is immoral.

c) degrades women.

d) distorts the meaning of sexuality.

19. In which court cases did the New Mexico Supreme Court rule that a photographer was guilty of discrimination when she declined to photograph a gay couple’s wedding due to her religious beliefs?

a) Mison Photography v. Callus

b) Photography Memories v. Willock

c) Elane Photography v. Willock

d) Elane Photography v. Callus

20. The first laws having to do with abortion are found in

a) the Code Napoleon.

b) English common law dating to the thirteenth century.

c) the Mortensen Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1895.

d) the Code of Hammurabi.

21. In western Europe from the Middle ages and into the nineteenth century, abortion was allowed

a) only in cases of rape or incest.

b) only in cases in which the woman was unmarried.

c) in any case before the third trimester.

d) in any case before the quickening.

e) only beginning in the late twentieth century.

22. Roe v. Wade gave women the right to

a) unlimited abortion.

b) unlimited abortion up to the beginning of the third trimester.

c) unlimited abortion in the first trimester.

d) unlimited abortion in cases of rape or incest only.

23. The case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Partial Birth Abortion Act was constitutional was

a) Stenberg v. Carhart.

b) Gonzales v. Carhart.

c) Doe v. Bolton.

d) Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey.

24. The real issue of the “right of refusal” cases is said to be

a) homophobia.

b) morality.

c) participating.

d) scandal.

25. The manufacture, sale, and use of alcohol were outlawed in 1920 by the

a) Act of Prohibition.

b) Eighteenth Amendment.

c) Volstead Act.

d) Harrison Act.

26. More harm is probably done by ____ than by all the other vices combined.

a) alcohol

b) illicit drugs

c) prostitution

d) adultery

27. Prohibition was repealed by the

a) Prohibition Repeal Act.

b) Twenty-First Amendment.

c) Volstead Act.

d) Nineteenth Amendment.

28. Drugs such as heroin and cocaine were first regulated in the United States with the passage of the

a) Act of Prohibition.

b) Eighteenth Amendment.

c) Volstead Act.

d) Harrison Act.

29. At least ___ percent of American prison inmates are alcohol and/or drug addicted

a) 25

b) 50

c) 70

d) 90

30. Most United Nations organizations and most democratic nations

a) favor complete legalization of drugs.

b) favor the continued criminalization of all mind-altering drugs.

c) favor a treatment/harm reduction approach to the drug problem.

d) deny that drugs cause harm to anyone other than the user.