What is the difference between lewdness and indecent exposure?

What will be an ideal response?


Lewdness involves conduct that is obscene, such as willfully exposing the genitals of one person to another in a public place for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire and is more general than indecent exposure, which entails an act of public indecency, including sexual intercourse, exposure of the sexual organs, a lewd appearance in a state of partial or complete nudity, or a lewd caress or fondling of another person.

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Briefly summarize the early years of African American Lawyers.

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Which of the following is NOT a component of a “crime reporting wave?”

a. gathering data from police departments b. journalists making bonuses for being the first to report on a crime story c. repetition of one news outlet’s story by another one d. embellishment of a news story

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Describe the relationship between syndrome-based defenses and mens rea.

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Preventive patrol should focus on

A) frequent patrol of high crime areas. B) a search for suspicious persons. C) planned variation of patrol patterns. D) high police visibility. E) all of the above.

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