The Limits of Social Control: Policing Vice

Question 1

A _____________ is any consensual act which offends the moral standards a community that has condemned the act.

Answer 1

vice crime

Question 2

A key element in defining vice crimes is the ______________ first enumerated by John Stuart Mill.

Answer 2

harm principle

Question 3

The harm principle is the idea that people should be free to enjoy any and all liberties as long as their behavior…

Answer 3

does not cause harm to others

Question 4

Vice crimes are considered ____________ whereas traditional crimes are considered mala in se.

Answer 4

mala prohibita

Question 5

______________ is the only vice discussed in this chapter that has remained criminalized.

Answer 5

The manufacture/selling of addictive drugs

Question 6

Antisodomy statutes were ruled unconstitutional in ____________________.

Answer 6

Lawrence v. Texas (2003)

Question 7

The law’s stance on sexuality was largely influenced by the rise of ____________ in the mid to late nineteenth century.

Answer 7

psychiatry

Question 8

_____________________ balances the goverment’s interest in imposing a law that would restrict certain freedoms with an individuals constitutional right to be free of the law in question.

Answer 8

compelling government interest

Question 9

____________ means that a state can regulate or tax an industry.

Answer 9

legalization

Question 10

____________ means that an activity is of no interest to the state.

Answer 10

decriminalization

Question 11

___________________ outlined the test for “obscenity” for which three conditions must be met: prurient interest, patently offensive, and lack of serious value.

Answer 11

Miller v. California (1973)

Question 12

___________ is a legal term for subcategories of pornography that is not constitutionally protected such as child pornography.

Answer 12

obscenity

Question 13

In the circuit court case _____________________ the court ruled recognized that pornography is harmful, but that its harms are what “demonstrate the power of pornography as speech.”

Answer 13

American Booksellers Association Inc. v. Hudnut, 1984

Question 14

Of all mood-altering substances ____________ is teh one most directly linked to violent crime.

Answer 14

alcohol

Question 15

The ____________________ was the benchmark act for changing American attitudes toward drugs.

Answer 15

Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914