Learning Objectives

  1. Identify, describe, and apply the elements of prostitution.
  2. Identify, describe, and apply the elements of incest.
  3. Identify, describe, and apply the elements of adultery.
  4. Identify, describe, and apply the elements of the Miller obscenity test.
  5. Identify, describe, and apply the elements of public indecency and describe the contemporary equal protection issue with these laws.
  6. Identify, describe, and apply the elements of gambling and the tests that are used to distinguish games of chance from skill.
  7. Describe the due process and free speech limitations on loitering and vagrancy laws.
  8. Describe the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), including the factors that are used to determine a drug’s classification and the acts that are criminalized.
  9. Describe how animal rights have evolved from the Common Law to modernity.
  10. Identify three or more federal environmental protection laws and identify the most common mens rea of environmental crimes.