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In [[criminology]], '''[[public order crime]] case law in the [[United States]]''' is essential to understanding how the [[court]]s interpret the policy of laws where the [[morality|moral]] and social order of the [[state]] appears to be threatened by clearly identified behavior.

==Loving ''et ux'' v Virginia 388 U.S. 1 (1967)==
(contracted; show full)a upheld the law in that moral opposition to nudity provided a rational basis for prohibiting nude dancing. While Justice Souter said that the State's interest was unrelated to the suppression of free expression, since the pernicious effects were merely associated with nude dancing establishments and were not the result of the expression inherent in nude dancing. Indeed, the law required little when measured against the dancer's remaining capacity and opportunity to express an erotic message.

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[[Jacobson v. United States|Jacobson v United States 503 U.S. 540 (1992)]]==
The issue was the extent to which the Government may [[solicitation|solicit]] or [[entrapment|entrap]] the commission of an offense. Jacobson was not simply offered the opportunity to order pornography, after which he promptly availed himself of that opportunity. He was the target of 26 months of repeated Government mailings and communications. Justice White said that there was no dispute about the evils of child pornography or the difficulties that laws and law enforcement have encountered in eliminatin(contracted; show full) involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter. The case does involve two adults who, with full and mutual consent from each other, engaged in sexual practices common to a homosexual lifestyle. The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime."

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