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... crime and other antisocial behav- ior ; and " ( 4 ) to recommend such legislative , administrative , or other advisable and appropriate action as the Commission deems necessary to regulate effectively the flow of such traffic , without ...
... crime and other antisocial behav- ior ; and " ( 4 ) to recommend such legislative , administrative , or other advisable and appropriate action as the Commission deems necessary to regulate effectively the flow of such traffic , without ...
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... CRIME Law enforcement officers differ among themselves on the question of wheth- er “ organized crime " is involved in the pornography business . Some believe very strongly that it is ; others believe just as strongly that it is not ...
... CRIME Law enforcement officers differ among themselves on the question of wheth- er “ organized crime " is involved in the pornography business . Some believe very strongly that it is ; others believe just as strongly that it is not ...
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... crime . Analysis of police records of the same types of sex crimes in Copenhagen during the past 12 years revealed ... crime rates neither proves nor disproves the possibility that availability of erotica leads to crime , but the massive ...
... crime . Analysis of police records of the same types of sex crimes in Copenhagen during the past 12 years revealed ... crime rates neither proves nor disproves the possibility that availability of erotica leads to crime , but the massive ...
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... crime , delinquency , sexual or nonsexual deviancy or severe emotional disturbances . This research and its results are described in detail in the Report of the Effects Panel of the Commission and are summarized above in the Overview of ...
... crime , delinquency , sexual or nonsexual deviancy or severe emotional disturbances . This research and its results are described in detail in the Report of the Effects Panel of the Commission and are summarized above in the Overview of ...
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... crime , delinquency , sexual or nonsexual deviancy , or severe emotional disturbances . The absence of empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship also applies to the exposure of children to erotic materials . However ...
... crime , delinquency , sexual or nonsexual deviancy , or severe emotional disturbances . The absence of empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship also applies to the exposure of children to erotic materials . However ...
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Page 431 - American courts adopted this standard but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test : whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
Page 544 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 612 - ... All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance — unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion — have the full protection of the guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.
Page 449 - Under this definition, as elaborated in subsequent cases, three elements must coalesce: it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value.
Page 430 - There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any Constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting" words— those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.
Page 455 - ... the business of purveying textual or graphic matter openly advertised to appeal to the erotic interest of their customers.
Page 468 - It is not the book that is on trial; it is a person. The conduct of the defendant is the central issue, not the obscenity of a book or picture. The nature of the materials is, of course, relevant as an attribute of the defendant's conduct, but the materials are thus placed in context from which they draw color and character. A wholly different result might be reached in a different setting. The personal element in these cases is seen most strongly in the requirement of scienter. Under the California...
Page 430 - All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance — unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion — have the full protection of the [First Amendment] guaranties, unless excludable because they encroach upon the limited area of more important interests.
Page 315 - State may not constitutionally inhibit the distribution of literary material as obscene unless "(a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social value...
Page 490 - Members of the commission shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The...