Learning Objectives

1. Know the definition of crimes against public order and morality.

2. State the elements of disorderly conduct and the types of acts punished by the crime of disorderly conduct.

3. Distinguish the crime of riot from the crime of disorderly conduct.

4. Understand crimes against the quality of life and the broken windows theory.

5. Discuss vagrancy and loitering and discuss homelessness and criminal law.

6. Understand the debate on the overreach of criminal law.

7. Know the definition of the crime of prostitution and various crimes related to prostitution.

8. State the definition of obscenity and the differ­ence between obscenity and child pornography.

9. Discuss the reason for the crime of cruelty to animals.