What is a Quality-of-Life Offense?

What will be an ideal response?


A minor violation of the law (sometimes called a petty crime) that demoralizes community residents and businesspeople. Quality-of-life offenses involve acts that create physical disorder (e.g., excessive noise or vandalism) or that reflect social decay (e.g., panhandling and prostitution).

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a. Snorted. b. Smoked. c. Injected. d. Swallowed.

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The legal representative who is charged with monitoring correctional compliance on behalf of that court is called a(n) ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Under the common law, the killing of a fetus was

a. not a homicide b. feticide c. homicide d. genocide

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Police officers who have established probable cause that evidence is likely to be at a certain place and who do not have time to get a search warrant may conduct a warrantless search based on exigent circumstances

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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