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All Public Order and Morality Offenses

Offenses that disturb the peace, safety or shared standards of decency of a community rather than targeting one identified victim, the modern descendant of common law breach of the peace and close to the class the Model Penal Code groups as offenses against public order and decency. The group spans disorderly conduct, rioting and unlawful assembly, public intoxication and the regulation of gambling and unlicensed alcohol, vagrancy, loitering and begging, obscenity and public indecency, minor traffic and nuisance ordinances, and offenses against religious or funerary respect such as blasphemy, sacrilege, and the desecration or mishandling of a corpse or a grave. Belongs here: conduct a jurisdiction criminalizes because it offends a community shared order or decency norms, even where no individual complainant is harmed. Does not belong here: cruelty toward an animal, held under Animal-Related Offenses, or an offense that specifically obstructs a legal proceeding, held under Administration of Justice Offenses.

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All Public Order and Morality Offenses
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Abuse of a Corpse

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Abusive Language

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Affray

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Apostasy

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Begging

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Blasphemous Libel

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Blasphemy

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Breach of the Peace

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Brothel-Keeping

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Concealment of a Corpse

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Concealment of Birth

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Curfew Violation

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Disorderly Conduct

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Flag Desecration

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Football Hooliganism

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Grave Desecration

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Heresy

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Illegal Gambling

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Jaywalking

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Kerb Crawler

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Littering

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Loitering

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Minor in Possession

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Mobbing (Scots Law)

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Moonshine

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Noise Ordinance Violation

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Numbers Game

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Obscenity

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Open-Container Law

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Outraging Public Decency

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Parking Violation

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Pimping

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Prank call

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Preventing the Lawful Burial of a Body

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Prostitution

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Provoking Speeches or Gestures

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Public Intoxication

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Public Nuisance

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Public Urination

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Qadhf

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Rioting

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Rum-Running

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Sacrilege

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Sly-Grog Shop

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Unjust Vexation

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Unlawful Assembly

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Vagrancy

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Witchcraft

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Sources
1. Riot Act (Wikipedia)
WikipediaRiot Act, Introduction and purpose section
Quote, Riot Act, Introduction and purpose section
The Riot Act 1714 was introduced during a time of civil disturbance in Great Britain, including the Sacheverell riots of 1710, the Coronation riots of 1714 and the 1715 riots in England.
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