Exam 12: Crimes Against Public Order and Morals

​The Court has established a number of tests to determine whether ordinances violate the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.Which of the following is one of those tests?

​The term "victimless crime" usually only applies to the conduct of

​Disorderly conduct offenses are an important part of the criminal justice system for three reasons.Which of the following is not one of those reasons?

Stephan and Tito are playing basketball in the park with some friends. They are taking a break when they begin discussing politics. Stephan is a democrat and Tito is a Republican. They begin arguing loudly and pushing each other. A police officer cruising by the park hears the commotion and stops to talk to the two men. -​Based on the information provided,what crime could the officer charge Stephan and Tito with?

The list of quality of life offenses includes public drinking and drunkenness.

Andre, Tiny, Macho, and Julio are all members of a gang called the Vatos Locos. They spend a great deal of time in the neighborhood park hanging out. The local neighbors complain to the city and the city writes an injunction making it illegal for any of the four boys to spend any time together in public. -​This type of injunction addresses what kind of behavior by gang members?

​Broken windows theory is concerned with which of the following?

​The Model Penal Code has limited modern disorderly conduct to three actions triggered by what?

Most people are more worried about bad public manners than they are about serious crimes.

Any examination of criminal law should ignore quality-of-life crimes as unimportant to early 21st-century life.

Commercial speech is protected by the First Amendment.

Research has indicated that most people are more worried about "quality of life" crimes than about serious crimes.What information in the chapter provides support for such concern? Why do you think people are more worried about "quality of life" crimes than about serious crimes?

​What is it called when a person is stopping people on the street to ask them for money?

Explain how efforts to control "quality of life" offenses highlight the tension between order and liberty in constitutional democracies.

Discretionary decision making in the enforcement of minor crimes poses several ethical issues.

​To deal with gang problems,many cities have utilized the civil remedy of an injunction to abate

The empirical findings regarding a link between minor quality of life offenses and more serious crimes are positive.

​In what case did the U.S.Supreme Court tighten the constitutional restrictions on loitering statutes?

Prostitution involves at least people.

In practice,what is the most common use of disorderly conduct statutes?​