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Disorderly conduct

Visualization of narrower problems

Name(s):

Disturbances of the peace

Disorderly behaviour

Nature

Disorderly conduct is intentionally harassing, annoying or alarming another person. Fighting in public, making loud or unreasonable noise, using abusive or obscene language in a public place or making an obscene gesture are examples. Other types of behaviour considered disorderly are obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic, preventing the use of a public facility, persistently following a person in a public place, loitering in a public place in order to solicit sexual contact, or acting in any way which creates a hazardous, physically offensive or seriously alarming conditions and has no legitimate purpose.

Counter-claim

Disorderly conduct is a catch-all law used by the police to harass anyone they please.

Broader

Offences against public order

Narrower

Routs

Vagrancy

Indiscriminate violence

Disruptive behaviour in institutions

Hindering proceedings by disorderly conduct

Aggravated by

Loss of decorum

Strategy(ies)

Correcting disorderly conduct

Calming disturbances of the peace

Value(s)

Type

(D) Detailed problems

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