Public Order and Public Order Offenses Flashcards

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Drug Offense

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Any violation of the laws prohibiting or regulating the possession, use, distribution, sale, or manufacturing of illegal drugs.

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Public Order Offense

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an act that is willfully committed and disrupts the public peach tranquility

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Office of National Control Policy

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A national office charged by Congress with establishing policies, priorities, and objectives for the nations rug control program.

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Drug

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A chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well being

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Psychoactive Drugs

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Affect the central nervous system and stimulate or dull the senses, promote a feeling of euphoria, or alter perceptions

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Opiates

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Drugs derived from the opium plant

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Opiods

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Completely synthetic drugs that are not derived from opium

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Hallucinogens

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Their chief feature is to altered perceptions

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Stimulants

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Excite the central nervous system

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Depressants

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Inhibits the central nervous system

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Schedule 1 Drugs

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No currently accepted medical use, high potential for abuse and doctors cannot perscribe

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Schedule 2 Drugs

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Sometimes accepted for medical use, high potential for abuse and doctors can prescribe but very stringent

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Schedule 3 Drugs

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Currently accepted for medical use, lower potential for abuse and doctors routinely perscribe

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Schedule 4 Drugs

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Currently accepted for medical use, lower potential for abuse and doctors routines prescribe

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Schedule 5 Drugs

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Currently accepted for medical use, low potential for abuse and can be purchased over the counter

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Drug Trafficking

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The manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, importing, and exporting of a controlled counterfeit substance.

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Pharmaceutical Diversion

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the process by which legitimately manufactured controlled substances are diverted for illicit use

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Drug-Defined Crimes

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violations of laws prohibiting the possession, distribution, or manufacture of illegal drugs

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Drug Related Crimes

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offenses that do not involve a violation of drug law per se, but rather a violation of a law of some other tye

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Psycho-pharmacological Framework

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Properties of the drug lead a person on drugs to commit crimes

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Economic Compulsive Framework

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The want and need for the dug relates to committed crimes

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System Framwork

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Crime occurs in connection to drug use because drugs are illegal and sold on the black market

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Source control

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Activities aimed at limiting the cultivator and production of illicit drugs in foreign countries.

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Interdiction

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The attempt of the US to prevent drugs from being smuggles across our borders by denying drug smugglers the use of air, and maritime routes

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Street-level Enforcement-

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Drug Law enforcement operations currently used by the police departments to apprehend drug offendors

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Prostitution

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The offering of ones self for hire fit the purpose of engaging in sexual relations or act or practice of engaging in sexual activity for many or its equivalent

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Street Walkers

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Seen as the lower class of prostitute because they solicit customers in public

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Bar/Hotel prostitutes

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Work in bars, clubs, and hotels

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Call girls

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Work for escort services

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House/Brother Prostitutes

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Practice their trade in legal environment but are limited to only a few venues in the US

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What is suggested as alternative drug control policies

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Decriminalization and Legalization

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Decriminalization

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The redefinition of certain previously criminal behaviors into regulated activities that become “ticket-able” rather than “arrest-able”

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Legalization

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Elimination of the laws and criminal penalties associated with certain behaviors- usually the production, sale, distribution, and possession of a controlled substance.