Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Offenses such as disorderly conduct constitute a significant percentage of arrests made in a given year.
2. The crime of lewdness involves conduct that is obscene.
3. The crime of disorderly conduct does not take into account whether the conduct tends to provoke a disturbance.
4. Sleeping outdoors is an example of an act punished under the crime of vagrancy.
5. Riots are punished separately from acts of disorderly conduct because the collective action involved in a riot poses a greater threat to society and is less easily deterred than the act of a single individual.


1. True
2.True
3. True
4. True
5. True

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