True False The Limits Of Social Control Ch10 Full Test Bank - Chapter Test Bank | Law & Society 4e Walsh by Anthony Walsh. DOCX document preview.
CHAPTER 10
TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
1. The age of consent in all U.S. states is eighteen.
2. Vice crimes are all mala prohibita.
3. The Chicago Morals Court was mainly concerned with cases of homosexual sodomy.
4. Adultery has been considered a capital (death penalty) crime in many cultures.
5. There has been widespread agreement across time and culture about what constitutes sodomy.
6. Homosexuals have always been considered a group distinct from heterosexuals.
7. The case that invalidated all U.S. anti-sodomy statutes was Lawrence v. Texas.
8. Prostitutes have always been generally reviled as evil, dirty women.
9. The Harrison Act led to the criminalization of prostitution in most U.S. states.
10. The issue in the prostitution case of Roe V. Butterworth was privacy.
11. Legalizing prostitution has led to an increase in prostitution in countries and states that have done so.
12. Prostitute rights groups favor prostitution’s legalization.
13. Decriminalization and legalization are two terms meaning the same thing.
14. Obscenity and pornography are two terms meaning the same thing.
15. The Miller test is the currently used test for obscenity.
16. Individuals have been found to have discriminated against gays and lesbians for refusing to provide services through their businesses.
17. The Supreme Court laid down the obscenity test in Regina v. Hicklin.
18. Most feminists oppose pornography on moral grounds.
19. The courts have determined that pornography is permissible because it is harmless.
20. The first written laws having to do with abortion are found in Hammurabi’s Code.
21. Abortion was allowed Western Europe from the Middle ages and into the nineteenth century up until the quickening.
22. Roe v. Wade gave women the absolute right to abortion at any time during their pregnancy.
23. Partial birth abortion involves sucking the brain out of a partially delivered fetus/baby.
24. Prohibition became law with the passage of the Volstead Act.
25. Prohibition was repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment.
26. Drugs such as cocaine and heroin were first regulated under the Harrison Act.
27. At least 70 percent of American prison inmates are alcohol and/or drug addicted.
28. Most democratic nations follow a harm reduction approach rather than a criminalization approach to the drug problem.
29. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled against either decriminalizing or legalizing drugs in the United States.
30. The harm principle was first enunciated by Hammurabi.
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