Chapter 13: Crimes Against Morality

Question 1

Crimes that violate morality and public decency are often referred to as…

Answer 1

Victimless crimes

Question 2

Victimless crimes are characterized by the fact that…

Answer 2

The people involved in these types of activities are usually willing participants.

Question 3

These types of crimes involve people who have given consent to participate and engage in such behavior as

Answer 3

Drug sales / purchasing, prostitution, illegal gambling, public drunkenness, pornography, etc.

Question 4

Prostitution

Answer 4

Offering or engaging in a sexual act for hire

Question 5

Soliciting Prostitution

Answer 5

Requesting, asking, enticing another to engage in the crime of prostitution. Also known as Pandering.

Question 6

Promoting Prostitution

Answer 6

Managing, controlling, owning or otherwise facilitating a business for the purpose of prostitution. This would include providing/procuring prostitutes for others as well as transporting people for the purpose of prostitution.

Question 7

Pimping

Answer 7

Abetting, counseling, aiding, assisting or directing another person in the commission of the act of prostitution or acquiring a prostitute for another person.

Question 8

Drug

Answer 8

Any type of substance that has a psychotropic or physical effect on the human body

Question 9

Drugs generally fall under two major classes:

Answer 9

1. Psychologically Active = primarily affects the brain

2. Physically Active = primarily affects body function

Question 10

Pornography

Answer 10

Sexual behavior depicted / portrayed in such a manner as to sexually excite the viewer

Question 11

Lewd/Lascivious

Answer 11

Offensive or crude in a sexual manner

Question 12

Bigamy

Answer 12

The act of marrying one person while, at the same time, being legally married to another person

Question 13

Polygamy

Answer 13

The condition of having more than one husband or wife at the same time

Question 14

Incest

Answer 14

The act of having a sexual relationship between two family members who are closely related.

Question 15

Bestiality

Answer 15

Sexual relations between a human and an animal

Question 16

Necrophilia

Answer 16

Having sexual relations with a dead body

Question 17

Gambling

Answer 17

The betting and/or wagering of something of value (money, etc.) on the occurrence or outcome of an event.

Question 18

According to the video on Victimless Crime, how many people in the United States are arrested every year for victimless crimes?

Answer 18

4,000,000

Question 19

Match the type of drug to it’s corresponding schedule

Answer 19

Heroin -- Schedule I
Fentanyl -- Schedule II
Anabolic Steroids -- Schedule III
Talwin -- Schedule IV
Lyrica -- Schedule V

Question 20

According to the video on mandatory minimum sentencing, starting in 1986 with the Anti Drug Abuse Act there was a mandatory 5 year sentence disparity between possession of crack cocaine and possession of powdered cocaine of:

Answer 20

5 grams of crack - 500 grams of powder

Question 21

Doing your own research based on the case in the video about New York vs Ferber, was his contention that a New York child pornography law that prohibited persons from knowingly promoting sexual performances by children under the age of sixteen by distributing material which depicts such performances found to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court?

Answer 21

No

Question 22

Which two amendments were in question in the case of New York vs Ferber?

Answer 22

1st & 14th