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Legal Terms - contra bonos mores
[Latin] Against decent morals. To what extent immoral behavior should or is prohibited by the criminal code simply because it is immoral is a contentious issue. Recent years have seen a trend toward restricting legal involvement in moral disputes to actions that injure other people. Nonetheless, some offenses are nonetheless recognized as
is basically immoral (*incest, for example). There are also offenses for outraging (or plotting to outrage) public decency and scheming to corrupt public morals, however the extent of these offenses is unclear. * Corrupting public morals is not criminal in and of itself.
[Latin] Against decent morals. To what extent immoral behavior should or is prohibited by the criminal code simply because it is immoral is a contentious issue. Recent years have seen a trend toward restricting legal involvement in moral disputes to actions that injure other people. Nonetheless, some offenses are nonetheless recognized as
is basically immoral (*incest, for example). There are also offenses for outraging (or plotting to outrage) public decency and scheming to corrupt public morals, however the extent of these offenses is unclear. * Corrupting public morals is not criminal in and of itself.
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