Chapter 12 Self Quiz

Public-Order Offenses and Values

. What is an activity that is against the law and offends the values, norms, and/or morals of a dominant sector of society called?

. Early U.S. laws that restricted the sale of alcohol or drugs did so for _____ reasons.

. Which is not a reason that the use and abuse of drugs is important to the study of criminology?

. This law required those who produced, dispensed, imported, or gave away specified drugs to register with the government and pay a special tax.

. This law established a hierarchy of controlled substances by creating a five-level schedule that classified the drugs according to how dangerous they are, their potential for abuse and addiction, and whether they possess legitimate medical value.

. Soldiers used this during the Civil War to relieve pain and alleviate dysentery.

. This is the most commonly abused substance in the United States today.

. This means that a substance is completely legal to consume.

. Rather than treating the drug use as a criminal offense, this method treats it as a medical problem.

. In which state is the sale and purchase of sex legal?

. What do "blue laws" typically restrict?

. In which case was the test of obscenity currently used in the United States developed?

. In this case, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law prohibiting consensual sex between same-sex adults.

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What was the result of Robinson v. California?

. According to this theory, gambling works on the principle of intermittent reinforcement by paying off some of the time, which makes it exciting and addicting to some people.

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