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Crimes Against the Public MCQ

_____ is known as the crime of being a person who, with no visible means of support, travels from place to place and depends on the kindness of strangers for food, clothing, and shelter

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Correct Answer: Vagrancy

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_____ is defined as post–9/11 legislation that consolidates law enforcement efforts to combat terrorism against the United States of America

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Correct Answer: USA PATRIOT Act

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_____ is the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government or of betraying the country for the benefit of a foreign power

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Correct Answer: Treason

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Is terrorism using threats, murder, and mayhem to achieve illegitimate political goals?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a fraudulent call for an armed response by a tactical SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team to an unsuspecting location

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Correct Answer: Swatting

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_____ is defined as inducing another to lie under oath for the benefit of the offender

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Correct Answer: Subornation of perjury

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_____ is communication or agreement to commit treason or lesser similar offenses against the United States

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Correct Answer: Sedition

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Is second Amendment recognizes the right to bear arms?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as public disturbance usually by three or more people involving threats or actual acts of violence

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Correct Answer: Riot

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_____ is defined as unlawful acts that degrade the public trust in the body politic

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Correct Answer: Public corruption

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_____ is the performance of sex favors in exchange for a thing of value

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Correct Answer: Prostitution

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Is panhandling the practice of asking strangers for money in public places?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as impeding the administrative, judicial, or legislative process

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Correct Answer: Obstruction of justice

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_____ is defined as cybercrime that causes personal harm

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Correct Answer: Nonfinancial cybercrime

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_____ is crimes that are punishable because the laws define such conduct as criminal (e.g., prostitution and gambling)

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Correct Answer: Mala prohibita

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Is mala in se crimes regarded as inherently evil, such as murder, rape, and kidnapping?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as obtaining a portion of a contract back as an illegal payment for awarding the contract

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Correct Answer: Kickback

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_____ is defined as enslaving people for the sex trade, especially children, or for forced labor

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Correct Answer: Human trafficking

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_____ is a writ (motion) that permits a prisoner to challenge the legality of his confinement

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Correct Answer: Habeas corpus

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Is gang a group of three or more people who identify themselves through unique clothing, hand signals, and nicknames; may be responsible for street violence related to the gang’s criminal activities?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the dealing of, operating, and maintaining for pay any game of chance not controlled by the government; frequently, but not always, illegal

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Correct Answer: Gambling

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_____ is defined as crimes that run afoul of state and federal firearm regulations

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Correct Answer: Firearm offenses

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_____ is lies that a person knowingly makes to the federal government with the purpose to mislead or deceive

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Correct Answer: False statements

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Is espionage the surreptitious gathering and transmitting of U.S. national security information on behalf of a foreign power?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as crimes that punish polluters for tainting the country’s air and water supply and land resources

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Correct Answer: Environmental crimes

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_____ is defined as crimes related to the legal or illegal use or abuse of substances

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Correct Answer: Drug and alcohol offenses

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_____ is the crime of impaired driving established by a specific level of blood alcohol content

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Correct Answer: Driving under the influence

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Is disturbing the peace conduct that tends to disrupt the community by its noise?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as conduct that disturbs the public order

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Correct Answer: Disorderly conduct

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_____ is defined as Crimes that offend society’s collective sense of ethical behavior, such as prostitution, gambling, and drug and alcohol offenses

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Correct Answer: Crimes against the public

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_____ is using a computer to perpetrate fraud or infect other computers

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Correct Answer: Computer crime

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Is clean Water Act (CWA) legislation that set goals and standards for the quality and purity of U.S. water?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as legislation that sets goals and standards for the quality and purity of U.S. air

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Correct Answer: Clean Air Act (CAA)

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_____ is defined as posing as someone else online

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Correct Answer: Catfishing

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_____ is the offering, receiving, or soliciting of anything of value to influence official action or the discharge of a legal or public duty

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Correct Answer: Bribery

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Is breach of the peace a type of disorderly conduct?

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Correct Answer: True

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The definition of riot is two people who have the sole intent to destroy property.

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Correct Answer: False

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A gang is a group of individuals identified by nicknames, hand signals, clothing, who may engage in criminal acts.

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Correct Answer: True

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Breach of the peace may include the crime of refusing to follow a police officer’s lawful command.

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Correct Answer: True

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Treason prosecutions are most difficult for the prosecution’s lack of proof for the following element: ______.

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Correct Answer: Two attesting witnesses

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The definition of terrorism is generally understood as people using illegal means to achieve ______.

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Correct Answer: Illegitimate political goals

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Social media can be used to victimize others, by all the following means EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Assault and battery

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Computer crimes can be committed in all of the following categories EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Preventing Internet dating fraud

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Polly was on the witness stand testifying under oath that her brother was home with her and, therefore, could not have robbed the bank for which he was on trial. Polly knew she was testifying falsely. The two crimes Polly committed by lying under oath are ______.

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Correct Answer: Perjury and obstruction of justice

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Bribery cannot be committed unless one party is a ______.

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Correct Answer: Public official

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Those who panhandle and ask people for money are protected by which Amendment?

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Correct Answer: First

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In the D.C. v. Heller (2008) case where the U.S. Supreme Court first recognized a personal right to bear arms, Mr. Heller was a special police officer who wanted to use a firearm for ______.

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Correct Answer: Self-defense in his home

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The success of the online web site Silk Road in selling illegal drugs was due to communities which previously had no access to large quantities of drugs could get drugs from Silk Road delivered by ______.

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Correct Answer: Mail

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Most sex workers engaged in prostitution were recruited into the sex trade at what age?

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Correct Answer: 12 or 13

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Laws outlawing online gambling try to eradicate certain threats to the public, EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Increased socialization by video gamblers

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Mala in se crimes are inherently evil and mala ______ crimes are made criminal by lawmakers.

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Correct Answer: Prohibita

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