Moral offenses are a modern construct of historical research on criminality to a greater extent than other groups of crimes (Property crime; Violent crime) for the purpose of conducting comparative analyses. Although already the Constitutio Criminalis Carolinacontains a loose group of relevant offenses (articles 116–123) [1], they usually appear in the early modern period as “carnal crimes,” that is, sexual deviance, as still in the Allgemeines Landrecht für die Preußischen Staaten of 1794…