Disorderly Conduct Attendant Circumstance

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In many jurisdictions, disorderly conduct requires the attendant circumstance that the conduct occur in a public place. 1 This goes along with the purposeful or reckless intent to inconvenience, annoy, or alarm the public, or create a risk thereof. The Model Penal Code defines public as “affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access…highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, or any neighborhood” (Model Penal Code § 250.2).