vagrancy

The issue with vagrancy throughout history is not the vagrancy itself primarily, but the problems of theft and anti-social behaviors that go with it.

American society is more mobile than others, but poverty (outside of vagrancy) is extremely restricting.

Crazy to me that they exempted him from the vagrancy laws.

It is telling that society regularly outlaws afflictions like homelessness or situations like vagrancy instead of targeting the specific instances of bad behaviour that ought to be the problem.

[this line has been edited, see footnote] 2) Re-enact and enforce vagrancy laws.

Of course tents are not a long term solution, but vagrancy has been a problem for centuries and we still haven't solved it despite much chatter just like this.

On the contrary, American cities and towns are far too accepting of antisocial behavior such as littering, vagrancy, and disturbing the peace (not to mention more serious crimes such as drug use and offenses against property).

Last time we tried that inside the US, with towns posting signs telling economic migrants to keep going and using vagrancy laws to criminalize the poor, it didn't work out well for anyone.

It was used en masse with turn of the century vagrancy laws to arrest Black people who didn't have enough cash on hand, then send them to other states to work and/or die in coal mines as essentially slave labor.

The Revolution was led by rich men who wanted to set their own tax policy, workhouses and vagrancy laws were used to control the poor in early America, union busting and violent strike breaking began in the late 1800s, inequality has soared since the 70s.

Asia (and particularly Singapore) focuses on society, community and other values which attenuate the factors which lead to, and are exacerbated by, drug use (violence, theft, vagrancy, unemployment, under-employment).

But the counter argument is that when we try to abolish slavery in a righteousness holy war, we often end up in a worse state of general vagrancy and violence or even a worse state of exploitation (eg, share cropping) or a socialized form of slavery (eg, workfare).

A big reason for this is that "crime" is a very broad subject, covering everything from vagrancy to murder.

Indeed, many of the "homeless" may have access to shelter-- it is more of a vagrancy problem.

I now pass over to GPT: “Rubber laws are vague catch-all offenses—like old vagrancy or ‘disorderly conduct’ laws on steroids.

I am a believer in anti-vagrancy laws, so I think with the "jobs for everyone" comes enforcement against sleeping on street benches and panhandling.

Vagrancy laws, sit-lie laws, and the like are used against the homeless (who may in fact be creating other problems).

Vagrancy laws have been on the books since before drunk driving was even a crime.

Vagrancy is an issue with any free public service or public space, from parks to libraries to train stations to free buses.