Crimes against Morality and Drug Abuse Ch. 14 Flashcards

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Define Bigamy

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A married person having 2 spouses (2nd marriage is void)

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Define Polygamy

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Having several wives or husbands at the same time (all subsequent marriages are void)

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all states consider Bigamy and Polygamy to be

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Criminal offenses

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If one party enters into a subsequent marriage without knowledge of the impediment (hundreds to making of a contract, the first marriage)

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2nd marriage may become valid on removal of the impediment (at divorce or death of the first spouse)

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Define incest

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Sexual intercourse between people related by consanguinity (blood) or affinity (marriage)

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Define sodomy

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Was formally referred to in many states statues as the abominable and detestable crime against nature

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Sodomy interpreted by courts as referring to

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Oral intercourse, anal penetration, and bestiality carnal population (sexual intercourse) by man or woman with an animal

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Define Miscegenation

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Marriage between people of different races. It used to be illegal but now food in many states under the anti-miscegenation statutes.

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In 1967 the US Supreme Court anonymously ruled

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That anti-miscegenation statutes. Were unconstitutional (2016 film called loving)

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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)

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  1. Average person using modern community standards would find work as a whole appealing to prurient interest (shameful or morbid)
  2. The matter must show or describe sexual conduct in a way that is openly offensive.
  3. Work as a full has no serious artistic, literary, or scientific value
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Define federal controlled substance act

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5 schedules (categories) of controlled substances rank depending upon medical use, potential for abuse, potential for dependency

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The federal act imposes penalties on

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Persons for illegally drug trafficking (unauthorized manufacture or distribution of any controlled substance)

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