Crimes against Morality and Drug Abuse Ch. 14

Question 1

Define Bigamy

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Define Polygamy

Answer 2

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

Question 3

all states consider Bigamy and Polygamy to be

Answer 3

Criminal offenses

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Define incest

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Define sodomy

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Sodomy interpreted by courts as referring to

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Define Miscegenation

Answer 8

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

Question 9

In 1967 the US Supreme Court anonymously ruled

Answer 9

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

Question 10

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)

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Define federal controlled substance act

Answer 11

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

Question 12

The federal act imposes penalties on

Answer 12

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