Crimes against Morality and Drug Abuse Ch. 14 Flashcards
Define Bigamy
A married person having 2 spouses (2nd marriage is void)
Define Polygamy
Having several wives or husbands at the same time (all subsequent marriages are void)
all states consider Bigamy and Polygamy to be
Criminal offenses
If one party enters into a subsequent marriage without knowledge of the impediment (hundreds to making of a contract, the first marriage)
2nd marriage may become valid on removal of the impediment (at divorce or death of the first spouse)
Define incest
Sexual intercourse between people related by consanguinity (blood) or affinity (marriage)
Define sodomy
Was formally referred to in many states statues as the abominable and detestable crime against nature
Sodomy interpreted by courts as referring to
Oral intercourse, anal penetration, and bestiality carnal population (sexual intercourse) by man or woman with an animal
Define Miscegenation
Marriage between people of different races. It used to be illegal but now food in many states under the anti-miscegenation statutes.
In 1967 the US Supreme Court anonymously ruled
That anti-miscegenation statutes. Were unconstitutional (2016 film called loving)
What is the three-part Supreme Court test to determine whether material is obscene (all 3 parts of the test must be present for material to be deemed obscene)
- Average person using modern community standards would find work as a whole appealing to prurient interest (shameful or morbid)
- The matter must show or describe sexual conduct in a way that is openly offensive.
- Work as a full has no serious artistic, literary, or scientific value
Define federal controlled substance act
5 schedules (categories) of controlled substances rank depending upon medical use, potential for abuse, potential for dependency
The federal act imposes penalties on
Persons for illegally drug trafficking (unauthorized manufacture or distribution of any controlled substance)