vagrant
The book analyses the relationship between vagrancy and crime in the region.
They were arrested for assault, vagrancy, and shoplifting.
He abolished vagrancy laws that gave the police the authority to round up migrants at will.

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Examples of vagrancy

vagrancy
Both were afraid not only of alienating allies, but also of vagrancy and chaos within their domains.
The purpose was to counteract vagrancy and diminish the expenses of poor relief.
Their proposal to have the clause on the law on vagrancy revised after six years was turned down.
Unable to earn a living by cultivation or soldiering, these tribes 'reverted' to a life of vagrancy and crime.
The crimes covered included petty theft, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, desertion and of course, domestic violence.
It was from such useful positions that they slid into destitution and vagrancy.
As has timelessly characterised debates about the causes of vagrancy and indigent poverty, commentators tend to favour either ' structural' or 'behavioural ' explanations (and strongly disagree).
The mid-nineteenth-century employer in the tea districts was clearly worried about vagrancy.
Although the prison registers do not detail the exact reason for imprisonment, they often indicate when the crime was accompanied with violence, alcohol and vagrancy.
There were four senses in which quality of worker or similar terms were used, and these were vagrancy, shirking, industriousness, and mobilization.
Yet, already in the 19th century, approaches to poverty and poverty relief incorporated distinctly modern elements in their condemnation of begging and vagrancy.
If they maintained this regime, vagrancy and improvidence would be encouraged, and they contemplated discontinuing all casual daytime relief.
Huge numbers of older children found themselves jailed for vagrancy as a result.
While this was certainly a central concern of colonial legislators in attacking vagrancy, so too was the protection of enclosed property in land and livestock from trespass and theft.
The existing law drew a clear line between punishable acts such as crimes, vagrancy, and public drunkenness, and medical conditions such as blindness, deafness, and diseases.
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