Vagrancy

"Vagrancy" the stickiest of catch-all charges used to round up anyone unable "to prove at a given moment that he or she [was] employed."

Pro Libertate 2009

One need only look to similarly ill-judged powers, such as the power to arrest the homeless under the Vagrancy Act or dispersal powers under antisocial behaviour legislation, to see that this approach is flawed: it targets at-risk individuals with criminal sanctions which will only make their problems harder to overcome, it fails to address the root causes of homelessness, and will at best only displace homeless individuals elsewhere.

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Vagrancy and a wide variety of other similar violations were intentionally broad and trivial -- not intended to clean up the streets, but, instead, to suppress the advancement of blacks, as well as to feed the engines of agriculture and industry in the South with cheap forced labor.

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Blue knight is correct re ‘SUS’ and the Vagrancy Act of 1824.

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Vagrancy laws seemingly have been abolished, driving without a U.S. license, not a problem.

Arizona, illegal immigrants, and welcoming the stranger 2010

Vagrancy laws seemingly have been abolished, driving without a U.S. license, not a problem.

Arizona, illegal immigrants, and welcoming the stranger 2010

At the time, being gay in Spain was still illegal the Vagrancy Act criminalizing homosexuality was repealed in 1979, and his parents, unsure of what to do, confided in a Catholic monk, who promptly reported their son to the authorities.

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At the time, being gay in Spain was still illegal the Vagrancy Act criminalizing homosexuality was repealed in 1979, and his parents, unsure of what to do, confided in a Catholic monk, who promptly reported their son to the authorities.

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Vagrancy, that Gallic picareria, accepted the sewer as the adjunct of the Cour des Miracles, and at evening, it returned thither, fierce and sly, through the Maubuee outlet, as into a bed-chamber.

Les Miserables 2008