Chapter 12- Crimes Against Public Morality

Question 1

(sexual relations with animals).

Answer 1

bestiality

Question 2

—the crime of marrying one person while still legally married to another person.

Answer 2

bigamy

Question 3

bioactive or psychoactive chemical substances that come under the purview of the criminal law.

Answer 3

controlled substance

Question 4

a wide variety of substances that have any physical or psychotropic effect on the human body.

Answer 4

drug

Question 5

authorize judges to seize “all monies, negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value furnished or intended to be furnished by any person in exchange for a controlled substance.

Answer 5

forfeiture

Question 6

wagering of money, or of some other thing of value, on the outcome or occurrence of an event.
It is illegal where made so by law.

Answer 6

gambling

Question 7

another sexually defined offense, consists of unlawful sexual intercourse with a relative through blood or marriage, such as one’s brother, sister, mother, or father.

Answer 7

incest

Question 8

something that is obscene or lewd or tends to cause lust.

Answer 8

lascivious

Question 9

“[t]hat which appeals to the prurient interest and lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”

Answer 9

obscenity

Question 10

soliciting a person to perform an act of prostitution

Answer 10

pandering

Question 11

aiding, abetting, counseling, or commanding another in the commission of prostitution.
Also the act of procuring a prostitute for another

Answer 11

pimping

Question 12

the marrying of, or cohabiting with, more than one spouse at a time in the purported exercise of the right of plural marriage. In most jurisdictions, polygamy is a felony.

Answer 12

polygamy

Question 13

“the depiction of sexual behavior in such a way as to excite the viewer sexually.”

Answer 13

pornography

Question 14

Owning, controlling, managing, supervising, or otherwise keeping a house of prostitution
Procuring a person for a house of prostitution
Encouraging, inducing, or otherwise purposely causing another to become or remain a prostitute
Soliciting a person to patronize a prostitute
Procuring a prostitute for another
Transporting a person with the purpose of promoting that person’s involvement in prostitution

Answer 14

promoting prostitution

Question 15

“the offering or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire [as well as] the offering or receiving of the body for indiscriminate sexual intercourse without hire.”

Answer 15

prostitution

Question 16

a morbid interest in sex, an obsession with lascivious and immoral matters.

Answer 16

prurient interest

Question 17

a section of the federal Organized Crime Control Act know as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations provision.

Answer 17

RICO statute

Question 18

act of asking, enticing, or requesting another to commit the crime of prostitution.

Answer 18

soliciting prostitution

Question 19

an offense committed against the social values and interests represented in and protected by the criminal law and in which parties to the offense willingly participate.

Answer 19

victimless crime