Exam 9: Offenses Involving Morality and Decency

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

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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.

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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:

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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.

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

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

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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:

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Pornography that utilizes computer-generated images of children is:

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

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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:

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