Chapter 12 Video Case: Right to Feed the Homeless: MC Questions

Crimes against public order and morals are often called "quality of life" crimes. These crimes address "bad manners" in public that people in society believe create disorder and threaten the quality of life of ordinary people. Other people believe that making so-called "bad manners" a crime deprives individuals of their liberty without due process of law.

The best recent research suggests that disorder and serious crime __________.

a. are causally linked

b. do not directly cause each other

c. do not have common causes

d. have no relation to each

In Papichristou v. City of Jacksonville (1972), what did a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court do to a Jacksonville, Florida, vagrancy ordinance?

a. Affirmed it.

b. Failed to address it.

c. Struck it down.

d. Remanded it.

What makes it a crime to roam without visible means of support? What makes it a crime to stand around with no apparent purpose?

a. vagrancy; loitering

b. disorderly conduct; loitering

c. loitering; vagrancy

d. vagrancy; disorderly conduct

In Kolender v. Lawson (1983), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California statute that tried to what to vagrancy and loitering by making it a crime to wander the streets and fail to produce credible identification when a police officer asked for it?

a. wipe away with.

b. Combine.

c. Build upon the laws against.

d. Strengthen the laws against.

While its supporters have been more cautious with the theory since it was first introduced in 1982, the broken-windows theory espouses that there is what between disorderly conduct and serious crime?

a. no link

b. a tenuous connection

c. a possible connection

d. a direct link