| 单词 | vagrancy |
| 例句 | A colored guy who would get arrested for vagrancy if he didn’t work. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lafayette’s reputation in the black community was raised another notch when he went to court to fight his arrest and jailing on a false charge of vagrancy. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They settled for a charge of vagrancy and gave him the option of being expelled from the state or serving jail time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They took him to jail, booked him for vagrancy and intoxication, and locked him in a cell. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Then you’ll spend the night in jail for vagrancy and threatening behavior. We’ll let you on your way in the morning if you’ve learned to keep a civil tongue in your head.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Without equality, eugenics would inevitably falter on the false premise that social ills, such as vagrancy, pauperism, deviance, alcoholism, and feeblemindedness were genetic ills—while, in fact, they merely reflected inequality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once again, vagrancy laws and other laws defining activities such as “mischief” and “insulting gestures” as crimes were enforced vigorously against blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The sheriff returns to the lot with railroad officials and makes noises about vagrancy laws. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Clearly, the purpose of the black codes in general and the vagrancy laws in particular was to establish another system of forced labor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Another man, I don’t remember his name, asked, “Are they rough on the vagrancy law down there?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They would all arrest poor whites at will for charges like vagrancy, which is literally defined as doing nothing. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Consider Woody Guthrie, who left his family to freeze in the desert, and get locked up for vagrancy – and still went on to write This Land Is Your Land. In praise of … Ray Dolin 2012-06-12T21:34:57Z A member of Congress introduced a motion to ban them from the U.S., and the Vatican condemned their "erotic vagrancy." Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z Before we knew it, our sweet once-verbal teen was wandering the streets in a catatonic trance and being picked up for vagrancy by the police. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z There’s nothing illegal about it, Leander says, “Just enforcing the vagrancy laws.” 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Surprise, Surprise 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z One of the many draconian statutes passed was a law against the trivial non-crime of “vagrancy,” allowing law enforcement to arrest and incarcerate African-Americans for being unemployed or incapable of proving employment. A leap for women’s rights: The Texas abortion case and the end of reproductive Jim Crow laws 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z When he hitchhiked, he was jailed for vagrancy. The Life of Robert Stone, Who Captured American Energies in Intense, Foreboding Novels 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z There was, then, every incentive to concoct charges or send people to jail for the most trivial offenses: vagrancy, gambling, drinking, partying, hopping a freight car, tarrying too long in town. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Everywhere the state favored capital at the expense of labor, notably vagrancy laws and crop lien protocols. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The vagrancy laws continued, part of a network of restrictions known as Black Codes that Southern states began enacting after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed involuntary servitude as punishment for crime. In Cameron Rowland’s ‘91020000,’ Disquieting Sculptures 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z He thereby returns, as my late Guardian colleague Richard Boston put it in his BFI book about the film, “to his old vagrancy, a free spirit once more.” Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The Vatican condemned their affair as "erotic vagrancy", an "insult to the nobility of the hearth". Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z His vagrancy, adrift in the chill ruins of a bleak industrial landscape, presents a rootless person without a known identity. Starring Cate Blanchett, 13 times over: Actress commands a stunning range of roles for 'Manifesto' 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z He winds up in a prison farm on a vagrancy charge, where the harshness of the conditions are relieved only by movie night. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Cannabis was recognized for its ability to relieve pain and nausea long before it became associated with youthful vagrancy. The real reason cocaine, heroin and marijuana are illegal has nothing to do with addiction 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Then there's the story of Taylor and Burton's "erotic vagrancy". TV highlights 23/07/2013 2013-07-23T06:00:19Z He is able to summon his own uncertainty about what he would become, wondering whether ambition could save him from the vagrancy and madness that eventually made Scott a danger to himself and others. Books Of the Times: ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey’s Memoir 2014-02-23T22:48:06Z A Georgia congresswoman introduced a motion to ban them from the United States, and the Vatican condemned their "erotic vagrancy." Obituary: Elizabeth Taylor, of movies and men 2011-03-24T02:49:21Z Additionally, there were more examples of birds getting lost while migrating, a phenomenon known as migratory bird vagrancy. Funky space weather causes navigation problems in birds, study finds 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z One recent study examined millions of bird banding records and found that geomagnetic disturbances were associated with increased incidence of migratory bird "vagrancy," that is, birds becoming lost during migration. Space weather disrupts nocturnal bird migration, study finds 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z Loitering charges were rarely filed anyway, but the council cited the racist history of such laws, which were preceded by Jim Crow-era vagrancy statutes designed to target formerly enslaved people, in eliminating them. Another harrowing escape puts attention on open prostitution market along Seattle’s Aurora Avenue 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The night shift is also when the Bhamipuris see much of the shoplifting, vagrancy and other crime, including assaults, that have beset the neighborhood, especially since the pandemic. For many 7-Eleven franchisees, Seattle brings both boom and bust 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z A man who did not have such a contract could be arrested for vagrancy and then forced to sign a labor contract and work in agriculture. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z They issue tickets, almost impossible for a homeless resident to pay, and make the occasional arrest on drug possession, vagrancy or other relatively minor charges. California shifts to an experiment in coercion to treat the homeless 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Whyte said that since in-person court hearings have stopped, the neighborhood had hired a homeless outreach coordinator to try to address vagrancy in the neighborhood. St. Louis can banish people from entire neighborhoods. Police can arrest them if they come back 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z On leaving the store, Ms. Adickes was arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Eleanor Jackson Piel, Lawyer Who Fought Capital Convictions, Dies at 102 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Black codes are laws passed by states that targeted African Americans for minor crimes such as vagrancy, jumping a ride on a train car or not having proof of employment. Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The “exception clause” loophole led to repressive 19th-century laws in the South known as Black Codes that allowed authorities to incarcerate Black people for petty crimes, such as vagrancy, and then force them to work. Yes, slavery is on the ballot in some states 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z In 1931, nine Black boys, who had been riding the rails, were arrested for vagrancy and disorderly conduct after an altercation with some White travelers on the train. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z They ranged from “vagrancy management” to how the flow of water would be affected. Bike advocates, lawmakers want to save Potomac bridge as demolition begins 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Black people were not just denied the right to vote, but also could be arrested and jailed for vagrancy or idleness if they lacked jobs. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z And then there are the thousands of cities across the country that still have penal codes against vagrancy. Why are no Democrats prosecuted by Garland’s DOJ? 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z “That order would lead to creation of vagrancy laws and Black codes that would be wielded against Black people, forcing many into forced labor without pay.” After Juneteenth, many Black people in Texas remained enslaved 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Those who refused to sign contracts at all could be arrested for vagrancy and then made to work for no wages, essentially being reduced to the very definition of an enslaved person. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Although camping has generally been regulated by local vagrancy laws, Texas passed a statewide ban last year. With public camping a felony, Tennessee homeless seek refuge 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z “Now, what you do have to be concerned about is vagrancy,” the elder Mr. Tapo said. Struggling Louisiana Neighborhood Sees New Highway as a Perilous Exit 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z With growing attention to climate change, scientists emphasized the difficulty of unpacking the role of vagrancy in a species’s adaptation. These Birds Aren’t Lost. They’re Adapting. 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Every southern state soon had “vagrancy” statutes that punished unemployment with a term of forced labor for a private employer. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library will exhibit the cardboard signs of “people experiencing homelessness” this month, providing an uncomfortable visual reminder of the vagrancy problem gripping the nation’s capital. MLK library to exhibit homeless signs as D.C. struggles with encampments 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The church said that the restrictions, prompted by neighbors’ complaints about vagrancy, violated its federal constitutional rights to free religious exercise and free speech. Oregon Church Sues City That Limited Soup Kitchen Hours 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “Many of them also have outstanding warrants. Not because of major crimes, but most of those citations would be for vagrancy or public urination, because they don’t have anywhere else to carry out these activities.” Serial murders, beatings and beheadings: Violence against the homeless is increasing, advocates say 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Pinckney pointed to vagrancy laws and Black Codes, passed after the Civil War, that aimed to control freed slaves. 2 trials, 1 theme: White men taking law into their own hands 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “It’s done this epic odyssey,” said Alexander Lees, a biodiversity researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University in England who recently wrote a book on avian vagrancy. This eagle is very, very lost 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Or, at minimum, imposing consequences for breaking laws against vagrancy, littering and damaging public property. Opinion | San Francisco has problems. $12,000 trash cans are not the answer to any of them. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z He said wages soared until “local governments began to crack down and pass vagrancy laws.” Conservative Black intellectuals battle 1619 Project, ‘race-grievance onslaught’ 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Los Angeles officials eased enforcement of vagrancy laws during the pandemic, fearing that dispersing people on the streets would spread the virus. L.A. develops homelessness strategy, but does it have political will? 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z It’s hard to say precisely why vagrancy seems to be increasing. Perspective | Catch me if you can: An unlikely hummingbird is banded at a Virginia park 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Lees said vagrancy, as a biological mechanism, could help migratory birds expand their ranges, a potential advantage as global warming redraws the contours of suitable habitat. This eagle is very, very lost 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Following the abolition of slavery, Southern states that lost the literal backbone of their economies began criminalizing formerly enslaved Black men and women for offenses as petty as vagrancy or having unkempt children. US lawmakers unveil anti-slavery constitutional amendment 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z In the decades after the Civil War, Southern states passed laws targeting Black people for frivolous crimes such as vagrancy. California kept prison factories open. Inmates worked for pennies an hour as COVID-19 spread 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Soros-backed DAs in Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco and other cities have fired scores of experienced prosecutors and, as promised, stopped prosecuting low-level quality-of-life crimes such as disorderly conduct, vagrancy and loitering. Crime spikes as Soros-funded DAs take charge: ‘They’re not progressive, they’re rogue’ 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z And a study two years ago found that Black people are arrested for vagrancy at twice the rate of whites. Cities try to arrest their way out of homeless problems 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The loitering laws, preceded in this country by racist, Jim Crow-era vagrancy laws designed to restrict the freedom of formerly enslaved people, have rarely been enforced in Seattle courts recently. Seattle City Council votes to repeal loitering laws 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The loitering laws, preceded in this country by racist, Jim Crow-era vagrancy laws designed to restrict the freedom of formerly enslaved people, have rarely been enforced in Seattle courts in recent years. Seattle City Council votes to repeal loitering laws, but groups say much more is needed 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Blackmon detailed how nonsense laws against things like "vagrancy" were used to supply backwoods plantations and mines with slave labor. A brief history of the "Lost Cause": Why this toxic myth still appeals to so many white Americans 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The black arrest rate was at least twice as high as that for whites for disorderly conduct, drug possession, simple assault, theft, vagrancy and vandalism. Opinion | If you don’t believe systemic racism is real, explain these statistics 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Fourth, increased migration and vagrancy result in thicker interaction networks, through which disease can spread more easily. A society ruled by the rich is what got us here: Most Americans know they want a better way 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z While some are certainly faring better than others and each city has its own problems with vagrancy, poverty and crime, the scenes you are describing are more like “The Warriors” or “Death Wish” than reality. Congress ready to hit the skids again 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z African-Americans were incarcerated for trivial offenses such as loitering, stealing farm animals, breaking into railroad cars, spitting on the sidewalk and vagrancy. Perspective | Five myths about slavery 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Rustin, who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr and helped organize the March on Washington, was arrested in 1953 for having consensual sex, convicted under a “vagrancy” law long used to prosecute LGBTQ+ people. California pardoned a gay civil rights leader. Activists want clemency for more LGBTQ+ prisoners 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z There needs to be a vagrancy law with teeth. Downtown Seattle violence: Readers’ say enough is enough 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Historically, vagrancy laws made it a crime for a person to be down on his luck through no fault of his own. Tennessee editorial roundup 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Jim Crow, anti-Okie, “ugly” and vagrancy laws long empowered police to manage the down-and-out. Perspective | Democrats hate Trump’s plan for homelessness. But it’s their plan, too. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The area -- which has been plagued by vagrancy, high crime rates and unsanitary conditions almost since its development in the 1880s -- is an unorganized collection of warehouses, wholesale storefronts and decaying low-rent hotels. LA push to develop Skid Row prompts new clashes in California's homeless crisis 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Generations removed from 1619, Cottenham, 22, wound up at the mine for violating an Alabama vagrancy law that essentially made it a crime to be unemployed. Freedom and slavery, the ‘central paradox of American history’ 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Public reaction to the security measures initially was positive in some quarters because it helped reduce vagrancy and petty crime. El Paso wall doesn’t mean walls are the answer, locals say 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The state established severe penalties for minor crimes like vagrancy and petty larceny and arrested large numbers of former slaves based on thin or invented claims. Will Florida’s Ex-Felons Finally Regain the Right to Vote? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z He noted that vagrancy laws at the time made it so that blacks were often convicted of minor offenses, such as loitering, and sentenced to years of hard labor in the fields. Remains of Black People Forced Into Labor After Slavery Are Discovered in Texas 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The real public nuisances in these progressive sanctuaries are vagrancy, public urination and open drug use that are all increasingly common. The Climate-Change Tort Racket 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The flimsy vagrancy laws led to a vast system of arrests and slave labor across the South, Blackmon wrote. Freedom and slavery, the ‘central paradox of American history’ 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Black codes varied from state to state, but their legal foundation centred on vagrancy laws that allowed for an African American to be arrested if he was unemployed or homeless. Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z She points to emails in which the office of Councilman Harris-Dawson demanded the company remove fencing that surrounded the lot, which Duenas said wound up encouraging vagrancy. Government wants to take blighted property neglected after L.A. riots; owner objects 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z They had been young adults during the Depression, and they did not want to see, once again, the vagrancy and hunger that had been so commonplace — so visible — in the 1930s. How the Loss of Union Power Has Hurt American Manufacturing 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Sadly there is an epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy in #Windsor @RBWM. Royal Wedding 'begging' remarks defended 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Last month, while on a ski vacation in Wyoming, Mr. Dudley tweeted about an “epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy in Windsor,” which he says paints the historical market town in an “unfavorable light.” Call to Remove Homeless People (All 8) Before Royal Wedding Stirs Anger 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z White Southerners would report blacks for vagrancy, and law enforcement would arrest them and sentence African-Americans to up three months of forced labour on public or private lands. Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Last month, while on a ski vacation in Wyoming, Simon Dudley tweeted about an “epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy in Windsor,” which he said paints the historical market town in an “unfavorable light.” Controversy over call for crackdown on homeless near Windsor Castle before royal wedding 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z In December Mr Dudley tweeted about an "epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy" in the town. Begging crackdown call before royal wedding 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The only time Hsieh went inside all year was when he was arrested for vagrancy. Tehching Hsieh, extreme performance artist: 'I give you clues to the crime' | Brigid Delaney 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Law enforcement was one of the driving forces in the move to close the Whiteclay stores, where drunkenness, fights and vagrancy were a problem. Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Black Americans - who were domestic refugees fleeing state-funded terrorism - allegedly brought crime, unemployment, vagrancy, and drugs. Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Last month, while on a ski vacation in Wyoming, Dudley tweeted about an “epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy in Windsor,” which he says paints the historical market town in an “unfavorable light.” Controversy over call for crackdown on homeless near Windsor Castle before royal wedding 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z San Angelo police began cracking down on vagrancy this past spring. Homeless couple in Texas move to Arkansas, seek better life 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z In Boa Vista, the state capital, city authorities say more than 500 Warao arrived across the border but were deported because of concerns about vagrancy and begging. Venezuela indigenous group flees crisis for Brazil - BBC News 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Though bicyclists in purple shirts may have become the public face of downtown business owners’ campaign to keep crime, filth and vagrancy at bay, a less noticeable initiative is also at work. Downtown L.A. businesses try outreach to find permanent housing for the homeless 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Usher said many people with mental illness are repeatedly arrested for the same minor crimes, such as trespassing or public vagrancy, and get stuck in jail because they’re often low-income and can’t afford bail. Indianapolis eyes changing treatment of mentally ill inmates 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Augustus says the unit would enhance local community policing tactics, including crowd management and neighborhood patrols, and address quality-of-life issues, such as loitering and vagrancy. Effort underway to start a mounted police unit in Worcester 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s a burden many locals want no part of, seeing only — in one small hotel — an apocalypse of falling property values, crime and vagrancy. In Queens, Seceding From the Homeless Crisis 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z The vagrancy endemic to San Francisco seems to be spreading to the Golden State’s suburbs. California’s Bad Example for Criminal-Justice Reformers 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The answer turned out to be mass arrests for minor crimes such as loitering and vagrancy and the creation of a system of convict leasing that allowed prisoners to work for private parties. Ava DuVernay's documentary '13th' simmers with anger and burns with eloquence 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The plans also include seeking authority from lawmakers to enact ordinances aimed at panhandling and vagrancy, and improving the state’s relationship with the Oglala Sioux Tribe, whose members live on the reservation. Nebraska village known for alcohol problems gets broadband 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Even in Thailand, supposedly tolerant of cross-dressing men, vagrancy laws are used to harass trans women. Knife-edge lives 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Terms such as “cracker” and “squatter” began as Americanisms that brought pejorative English notions of idleness and vagrancy to this side of the Atlantic, where they served as a shorthand for landless migrants. “White Trash” — a cultural and political history of an American underclass 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The condition of these properties is known to be magnet for crimes, such as vagrancy or arson, Flummer said. EXCHANGE: Mounds: A city of abandoned buildings 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z To many, however, that was not really what the police were doing with vagrancy laws. It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z As these uses suggest, vagrancy laws were linked to a conception of postwar American society—as they had been linked to a conception of sixteenth-century English society—in which everyone had a proper place. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The DOJ's argument is based on the logic in an earlier Ninth Circuit decision, striking down a vagrancy law in Los Angeles, that was ultimately vacated in a settlement. It’s unconstitutional to ban the homeless from sleeping outside, the federal government says 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In most states, black people could not own guns, had to sign year-long work contracts, and could be arrested on charges of “vagrancy,” fined, and then bound to anyone who paid their fine. GOP’s fear of a black America: The long, racist history which explains Dylann Roof and stains the so-called “party of Lincoln” 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Instead of throwing people in jail for vagrancy and loitering, the state did something that was so groundbreaking and yet so simple: Each and every homeless person was given a home. New England editorial roundup 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z They saw vagrancy laws playing a very different role: keeping social order. It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Police turned to vagrancy in 1967 when they arrested Joy Kelley in the “crash pad” she had rented for herself and her hippie friends in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The tent cities, which usually have between 40 and 90 campers at sites sponsored by religious organizations, have had their share of controversy including unauthorized locations and complaints from neighbors about crime and vagrancy. King County to weigh 10 more years for tent cities 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z White, from Washington, D.C., where his brother worked for the IRS, had been arrested for vagrancy while walking down an Alachua County road. Turpentine magnate used jail inmates to get rich 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z They face violence and forced labor in police cells, where they are beaten with "batons, whips, or wires to extort bribes or as a punishment for vagrancy," according to Human Rights Watch. Ugandan police abuse homeless kids, says report 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z For centuries, vagrancy laws provided the police with a flexible, ubiquitous, hidden tool for justifying the arrest of anyone who seemed out of place in any way. It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z As the evocative language of these laws suggests, the crime of vagrancy had long historical roots. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Progressive governance, the thinking goes, will ensure end times, returning the city to vagrancy, bloodletting and that persistent offender of the suburban aesthetic, graffiti. Big City: Not in Office, de Blasio Is to Blame 2013-12-14T00:09:00Z A 1907 state law made it legal for local law enforcement to arrest for vagrancy “all able-bodied males over 18 without means of support and who remain in idleness.” Turpentine magnate used jail inmates to get rich 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, famously ended up serving 30 days in jail for vagrancy after train hopping his way to Niagara Falls in the 1890s. Risking death to ride the rails 2012-12-19T00:24:30Z Over the course of the 20-year vagrancy law challenge, law enforcement officers and local officials gradually gave up earlier arguments that the laws were necessary for both public safety and social order. It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Two features of vagrancy laws made them especially attractive. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z To look at this ubiquitous concept of search and tumult, I’m exploring the literal example of vagrancy: the nature of home. Addicts Are Professional Vagabonds 2012-11-12T22:45:02.917Z During years of economic downturn, cities across the country have reported rising vagrancy and rushed to pass laws banning aggressive panhandling, giving food away in public parks and even smelling foul. Berkeley, Targeting Homeless, Proposes Ban on Sidewalk Sitting 2012-10-20T06:00:24Z It was, on the whole, a jolly life, this vagrancy from fair to fair of all the towns of France. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z By 1972, the Supreme Court had struck down vagrancy laws as unconstitutional. It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Second, vagrancy laws made it a crime to be a certain type of person—anyone who fit the description of one of those colorful Elizabethan characters. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z They lived from “hand to mouth,” and if they had lived in our day they would, every one of them, have been denominated “tramps,” and would have been amenable to our modern laws of vagrancy. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z And then I think of the strange and winding paths, the weary roads he has traveled from that mother's arms to vagrancy and want. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Sylvia wondered whether life in Lille had always been as dull in reality as this, or if it were dull merely in contrast with the gay life of vagrancy. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z They only invalidated vagrancy laws after they had authorized what seemed at the time a less harmful alternative that would allow the police to continue to prevent crime while not allowing them to suppress nonconformity. It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Since the 16th century, vagrancy laws had been used in England to uphold hierarchy and social order. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Till the nineteenth century was well on its way, these instruments of punishment were in actual use for the correction of minor offences such as vagrancy. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z However, the Justice talked into his cup of the swift approach of Spring, of the benefit of sun, the intolerable increase in vagrancy, the need for repressing poachers. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z These provisions do not, however, prevent the states from limiting the privilege on other grounds, such as illiteracy, criminality, vagrancy, nonpayment of taxes, and the like. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z They joined organizations, found lawyers and brought constitutional challenges against vagrancy laws. It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Because it was almost always possible to justify a vagrancy arrest, the laws provided what one critic called “an escape hatch” from the Fourth Amendment’s protections against arrest without probable cause. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Men were saved who had been for years in the very lowest stages of dissipation and vagrancy. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z "You want to go easy, my friend, or I'll have you up for vagrancy again." The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z The answers to the question would throw light upon the relation subsisting between a strict work-house system and the increase of vagrancy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z One long-standing justification for vagrancy laws was that they “prevented” crime. It took 20 years to shoot down vagrancy laws. Then we got stop-and-frisk 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Where most American laws required people to do something criminal before they could be arrested, vagrancy laws emphatically did not. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z For all I know, they may have some paper for vagrancy ready to serve on me. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z Many of these unfortunates, being either unable or unwilling to work, adopted vagrancy as a profession, the Simon Pures being avouched by an official arm-badge. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z This, however, does not necessarily proceed from the Union, but from certain other wise notions respecting mendicancy and vagrancy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z And if we are to give to every one that asketh, what are our vagrancy laws but a flagrant violation of Christianity? Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester 2011-07-22T02:00:20.277Z When he walked the streets questioning and arresting the scum, the flamboyant, the detritus, and the apostate, he brought vagrancy laws with him, and he did his job. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z What limitations on intellectual and moral vagrancy will help them forward? The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z His Worship was “down on” vagrancy in all its forms. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Another large batch were disposed of under a vagrancy law, which allowed us to put them to work on the roads of the provinces for not exceeding two years, usually six to twelve months. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Among these, persons convicted of vagrancy only were, however, in a great majority, the number of criminal offenders condemned to hard labor, amounting only to one-seventh of the whole number. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z It was vagrancy the police used when they could not get Tulane law student Stephen Wainwright to cooperate with a murder investigation in New Orleans’ French Quarter in 1964. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z While I believe that many suggestions may be made, useful to the young enjoyer and promotive of his wise vagrancy, I shall not undertake here the complicated task of offering them. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z He heard on the street of the vagrancy sale, and seized the opportunity offered him to secure a free hireling. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z As to those persons, Judge Carson, Mr. Ross, and myself were unanimous in the opinion that some of them could be indicted under the vagrancy law. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z I wish that vagabond and his dog who were brought before a west side justice yesterday for vagrancy would travel up my way. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z It was vagrancy as well that justified the 1966 arrest of Martin Hirshhorn, a young cross-dressing hair stylist arrested in his hotel room in Manhattan wearing only a half-slip and brassiere. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z That night, police arrested Patrick at his home on charges of vagrancy and disorderly conduct. Man, 92, honored for bravery in 1954 civil rights case 2011-04-04T23:28:11Z It drives millions of workers into the ranks of the unemployed and forces large numbers of them into beggary, vagrancy, and all forms of crime and vice. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Like cross coves, they are generally young men who have been trained to vagrancy, and have been taught the arts of their profession in their childhood.' Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z The vagrancy laws and laws of apprenticeship were all of a nature to entrap the ignorant and take advantage of the weak. Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) 2011-02-23T03:00:31.787Z These and other vagrancy suspects were white and black, male and female, straight and gay, urban and rural, southern, northern, western, and midwestern. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Was some higher Power extending its hand against him, closing every avenue of escape from his old drifting existence, forcing him back into vagrancy? The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The same thing is true of vagrancy, pauperism, and crime. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z There was an enormous amount of vagrancy and mendicity, as there was in Scotland before the union. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z The vagrancy laws, not unlike those of the North and excellent in their purpose, are here sometimes executed with great severity. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Working-class immigrant families warned their maturing children not to leave home without money that could inoculate them from vagrancy arrests. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z In Sri Lanka and the Philippines, for example, vagrancy laws were used in this way, the report said. Gay Asian men 'denied HIV care' 2010-05-17T16:08:00Z It drives millions of workers into the ranks of the unemployed and forces large numbers of them into beggary, vagrancy and all forms of crime and vice. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z Among the preventible, or those which can be in good part removed, may be placed ignorance, intemperance, over-crowding of population, want of work, idleness, vagrancy, the weakness of the marriage-tie, and bad legislation. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them In Alabama the last legislature passed a law under which a Negro arrested for vagrancy must prove that he is not a vagrant. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Black newspapers warned their readers that vagrancy arrests were a likely consequence of any racially presumptuous behavior. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z We take the former first, dealing with the clan-family and the phratry, which are together the self-maintaining unit of society, with the general relief of the poor, with hospitality, and with vagrancy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Most of the railroads," says Mr. Lewis, in summing up the replies received to the questions he sent out, "report a very noticeable increase in vagrancy on their lines. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z We soon learned that very little dependence could be placed on his truthfulness or honesty; in fact, he was a fair specimen of New York juvenile vagrancy. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Of course idleness leads to crime, and one of the present efforts in the South is toward a more rigid enforcement of laws against vagrancy. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z The vagrancy law regime, then, regulated so much more than what is generally considered “vagrancy.” The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z They know much better how to provide for themselves than the almsgiver imagines, for vagrancy is in the main a mode of life not the result of any casual difficulty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" If I committed you for vagrancy or assault, it would delay you in a business which you must have deeply at heart. A Man in the Open One of the best practical methods of correcting vagrancy among city boys would be the adoption, by every large town, of an "ordinance" similar to that passed by the Common Council of Boston. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Many go down to vagrancy and crime in that struggle; a few will rise. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Over the next twenty years, alleged vagrants and their lawyers, social reformers, activists, the media, state legislators, state and lower federal courts, and, somewhat belatedly, the Supreme Court condemned vagrancy laws and their uses. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The magistrate, therefore, rather than the almsgiver, should usually interfere; and, as a rule, where the magistrates are strict, vagrancy in a county diminishes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" "Newspapers of your way of thinking, very likely," said Theophilus; "but if it comes to statistics, I can bring counter statements, numerous and dire, from scores of Southern papers, of vagrancy, laziness, improvidence, and wretchedness." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Herding together, they soon began to form an unconscious society for vagrancy and idleness. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them They are instructed to combat rowdy and irresponsible behavior—hooliganism, begging, and vagrancy—and other antisocial manifestations. Area Handbook for Bulgaria In doing so, they projected a new image of American society in which vagrancy policing was anathema. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Stealing and vagrancy among boys has decreased too; if not so fast, yet at a gratifying rate. The Children of the Poor Nothing is more amusing than these general congresses of European vagrancy. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Mrs. Forster, the excellent Matron of the Female Department of the prison, had told us of an interesting young German girl, committed for vagrancy, who might just at this crisis be rescued. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them If you don't tell me what you do with the dogs, I shall enter a charge of vagrancy against you.' The History and Records of the Elephant Club As may already be apparent, the age-old crime of vagrancy became a flashpoint in virtually every great cultural controversy of the time. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z They are in truth only an application of the law of vagrancy to corporations, and have their analogy in the restrictions now generally imposed by states on the immigration of aliens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" They had fallen back on the hazardous command of such a vessel as this not from choice, but necessity, precisely as other types of unemployed and hopeless men fall back on vagrancy and crime. The Portal of Dreams What was needed to check crime and vagrancy among young girls was some School of Industry and Morals, adapted for the class. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them For one reason or another, ranging from vagrancy to espionage, I could be pulled in, tortured, executed, God knows what. The Old Die Rich Wherever the sixties happened, vagrancy law was there. The Forgotten Law That Gave Police Nearly Unlimited Power 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The free speech prisoners were charged with vagrancy on the police blotter, but no formal charge was ever made, nor were they brought to trial. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry Perhaps Uncle Contarine continued clement merely because in the nature of things his responsibilities for the vagrancies of his kinsman were inevitably less intimate. Oliver Goldsmith The School, with the Lodging-house, is the best preventive institution for vagrancy. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them The laws of vagrancy are also used as a means of reducing persons to a condition of peonage. Peonage The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 15 The alteration in the condition of the poor was followed by severe enactments against vagrancy; and the Protestant legislature, after creating a proletariate, treated it as a crime. The History of Freedom “Newspapers of your way of thinking, very likely,” said Theophilus; “but if it comes to statistics, I can bring counter-statements, numerous and dire, from scores of Southern papers, of vagrancy, laziness, improvidence, and wretchedness.” Household Papers and Stories The arraignment of Dr. Slade, the spiritual medium, before a London magistrate, on a charge of vagrancy, suggests the rather trite remark that "history repeats itself." The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 It is extraordinary, among the lowest classes, in how large a number of cases a second marriage, or the breaking of marriage, is the immediate cause of crime or vagrancy among the children. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them It is plain to me that ignorance is the cause of inefficiency, inefficiency the cause of vagrancy, and vagrancy the cause of crime. Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt Substantially everywhere in the United States, vagrancy laws were in force which decreed that an able-bodied man out of work and homeless must be adjudged a vagrant and imprisoned in the workhouse or penetentiary. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times In the rural districts vagrancy and mendicity still survive, in spite of constabulary forces and petty sessions. Old Roads and New Roads Then his father dies and the born vagrant is set loose for vagrancy. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Had travelled a good deal by means of freight trains and had been in several jails for vagrancy. The Social Work of the Salvation Army If ignorance be the mother of inefficiency, inefficiency the mother of vagrancy, and vagrancy the mother of crime, it is plain that the removal of ignorance will stop the others. Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt "Guess I don't get off with vagrancy; it'll probably be everything from speeding to mayhem, with maybe arson and well-poisoning thrown in." Astounding Stories, March, 1931 Speed in travelling has been as prejudicial to these merry and unscrupulous gentry as acts against vagrancy or the policeman’s staff. Old Roads and New Roads And what shall be done for those children coming up in idleness, ignorance and vagrancy? The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences She learned that she had none, that her father had been arrested for vagrancy, and would be sent to the bridewell. Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic He knew he could not afford to let it go much lower, otherwise the 47 detectives, who seemed forever spying on him, would be arresting him on a vagrancy charge. The Spoilers of the Valley If I am a vagrant commit me for vagrancy! Dr. Sevier Not a few enactments were made to keep down vagrancy. Bygone Punishments May the Divine Spirit suggest means, by which this wretched race may be reclaimed from their vagrancy, and be made acquainted with that Saviour, whom to know is life eternal! A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies Boswell's taste for literary adventures, and Johnson's literary vagrancy met in a companionship that found much satisfaction in the bohemianism of the inns and coffee houses of old London. All About Coffee "Emancipation," says Dr. Channing in 1840, "was resisted on the ground that the slave, if restored to his rights, would fall into idleness and vagrancy, and even relapse into barbarism." Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Apart from active crime, vagrancy was a great scourge. The History of London In several States laws were passed relating to contracts, apprenticeship, and vagrancy, under which the negro was to be held to regular work and the employer was given the right to punish him. The New Nation He has reason to believe, if this were effected, it would operate as a considerable check on vagrancy, and save much trouble to magistrates. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies This method of intuition is to the more sober method of science as the romantic to the classical spirit in literature, permitting to the individual mind a licence of noble vagrancy. Apologia Diffidentis I guess I must have drifted around the city for two weeks or more before the police found me and picked me up for vagrancy. Starman's Quest This flogging not only in the army and navy but also for such offences as vagrancy, lasted even into the present century. The History of London "No, I don't suppose I could tolerate being in and out of jail every week on a vagrancy charge," he told himself. Master of None After all, their employment can be considered little better than an apology for idleness and vagrancy. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies Then I shall know the real joy of vagrancy, caring little where night finds me, and quickening my steps for nothing and for no man. Apologia Diffidentis Even West Hampstead, where vagrancy was punished only less severely than petty larceny, was not so shunned as East Haven with the horrid comforts of its Refuge. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk The charge against you is that you take an audacious advantage of the confessional, not to bless me, but to rejoice in my romantic vagrancy. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Rustic life, which must essentially have been maintained on the great area of German vagrancy, was more and more confirmed. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 There are eleven buildings, which comprise all the agencies that tend to make abandoned children useful citizens and rescue them from a life of vagrancy and crime. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier It is difficult to say if our laws relating to vagrancy and vagrants are more cruel or more absurd. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Under the direction of this able minister, the laws were enforced, robbery and vagrancy were nearly stopped, and agriculture received a great impulse. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges They are also alarmed at the clamor of leading newspapers for a vagrancy law which will be invoked in times when the Negroes refrain from labor in the hope of advancing their pay. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist This was a tame enough ending to what was rather an interesting affair—the hope of the best citizens being that Thoreau would get a goodly sentence for vagrancy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 There is less of the vagrancy of letters,—Bohemianism, Mohicanism, or what not,—in London than in either New York or Paris. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War Only very rarely, however, has legal cognizance been taken of this evil, though it may sometimes be included under the general charge of "vagrancy" or "imposture." The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States The social troubles from vagrancy and evictions were slowly passing away. History of the English People, Volume IV The very sight of this model of his tribe brought vagrancy, with all her train, before our eyes, mugger’s-carts, tinker’s wives, bull dogs, donkeys, creels, kail pots, and all28 the trumpery of a gipsey’s camp. Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves But this kind of life becomes a vagrancy and not a noble and illumined crusade. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year It is possible that the strain of serving a three-months' sentence, on the technical charge of vagrancy, in a workhouse somewhere in Indiana, had affected the young man's nerves. From Place to Place "A soulless activity," says Canon Ainger, "may save a man from vagrancy only by turning him into a thing; or it may keep him from idleness by making him an egotist." Men in the Making Think of the intemperance and the vagrancy and the immorality that flourish under our very noses. A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day They took no chances, but brought him before the commanding officer, who sentenced him to "six months" for vagrancy. Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police In recent times 310 members of this family have been studied, and it is found that vagrancy, feeble-mindedness, mental troubles, criminality, pauperism, immorality are, as it may be termed, their patrimony. The Task of Social Hygiene Perhaps it was because I was young and notably a novice in vagrancy, but people were very good to me. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance She would probably be seen wandering at late night, with bedimmed stars and bedraggled gauze, until some vigorous officer should lead her to the station-house for vagrancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Lamb was a mental gipsy, to whom books were roads open to adventures; he saw skies in books, and books in skies, and in every orderly section of social life magic possibilities of vagrancy. Figures of Several Centuries Social reformers emphasize the bad effect on society of vagrancy. Civics and Health Or else they take the lofty patriotic ground, and say that their principles forbid them to countenance vagrancy, and that Heaven helps those who help themselves. 'That Very Mab' If we would have our hearts calm, we must let Him guide them, sway them, curb their vagrancies, stimulate their desires, and satisfy the desires which He has stimulated. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. The enterprise and vagrancy of all nations were there, as we had seen them at San Francisco; and those not engaged in building the town, were going off in caravans to the gold-gathering. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 The thick set captive in the gray overcoat, because he could not give a good account of himself, was sentenced to ninety days in the workhouse for vagrancy. The Grammar School Boys Snowbound or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports The workers were a bleary-eyed and unsavory lot; Conn had a suspicion, which Brangwyn's deputy confirmed, that they had been collected by mass vagrancy arrests in Tramptown. The Cosmic Computer We talk of poverty and forget poor people; we make rules for vagrancy--we forget the vagrant. A Preface to Politics The laws of vagrancy were so changed as, in many of their provisions, to apply only to him, and under their operation all freedom of movement and transit was denied. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The harvests of 1865 were abundant, but there had been a famine in several of the previous years; and this had given a stimulus to the vagrancy, so frequent and annoying among the Nestorians. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. The record of this court shows that you were convicted of vagrancy on December 26th, and sold to Mr. Fetters for four months to pay your fine and costs. The Colonel's Dream But it has saved many of them from sin and vagrancy, and has put them in paths of respectability and virtue. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City But to accept the conditions of vagrancy one must first embrace the loathsome thing itself. The Price Between March, 1903, and December, 1910, he was arrested thirteen times for assault, twenty-eight times for disorderly, and drunk and disorderly, twice for housebreaking, once for petty larceny and twice for vagrancy. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry To idleness, vagrancy, and drunkenness, besetting sins of the Nestorians, he was the old prophet; and in his longing desire to make them savingly acquainted with the gospel, he was the apostle. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. Bud Johnson," said the justice, "you are charged with escaping from the service into which you were sold to pay the fine and costs on a charge of vagrancy. The Colonel's Dream Nine out of ten street beggars in New York are unworthy objects, and to give to them is simply to encourage vagrancy; and yet to know how to discriminate. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The partition which stands upon the narrow dividing line between vagrancy and crime is but a paper wall, and any hot-hearted insurrectionary may break through it at will. The Price As far as he can recall he has been arrested twenty-two times for vagrancy since 1895, served four years at Moundsville and Atlanta for robbery, and six months for theft. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry We thus enter upon the experience of that true life which is "joy and peace in believing," and which remains indestructible through all the vanishing vagrancy of sin, misery, and the world. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The vagrancy law, of which the colonel had had some experience, was an open bid for injustice and "graft" and clearly designed to profit the strong at the expense of the weak. The Colonel's Dream The poor wretches are nearly always in want, and soon full into vagrancy, and some into vice and crime. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Here together are associated, and made hereditary, poverty, ignorance, idleness, beggary, and vagrancy. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions On February 2, 1910, was arrested for vagrancy and begging, and given a sentence of 180 days in the workhouse. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry At the age of 16 he was charged with the offence of vagrancy, convicted and discharged. Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health This terrible measure, intended partly to reduce lawless vagrancy, partly to supply cheap labor to employers, failed of its purpose and was repealed in two years. The Age of the Reformation They grow up to a life of vagrancy. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City In 1572 all but licensed companies were brought within the scope of the vagrancy laws. The Growth of English Drama A system of Labour Exchanges, dispensing with the need for wandering in search of work, will make it possible, for the first time, to deal stringently with vagrancy. Liberalism and the Social Problem Their inability to maintain economic independence results in vagrancy and destitution. Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health But whatever dreams of permanent and dedicated vagrancy I might entertain, manifestly my first duty was to find a cottage if I could. The Quest of the Simple Life All these matters were left to the states, and the legislatures of some of them, by their famous "black codes," restored a form of servitude under the guise of vagrancy and apprentice laws. History of the United States Little Lucy Rome was taken up for vagrancy in a great city. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures In my capacity of justice of the peace I shall issue a warrant to have that woman brought before me on a charge of vagrancy, and then I shall examine her on this point. For Woman's Love Chester, deceased, Esq., are exempt from the pains and penalties of vagrancy. Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 On the way they passed the school ship Massachusetts, to which boys are sentenced by the courts for crime and vagrancy, and on board of which they are disciplined and educated. Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat Many of these wanderers, it is said, are arrested for vagrancy; in summer they swell the prison population just as they swell the workhouse population in winter. Crime and Its Causes It was authorized to draft into military service any Jew guilty "of irregularity in the payment of taxes, of vagrancy, and other misdemeanors." History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) And as I said, when at last I thought it was time to have her arrested on a charge of vagrancy, it was too late. For Woman's Love Idleness, vagrancy and crime, the fruits of emancipation, There is not a free negro in the limits of the United States, Universal prejudice against the African race. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery They had privilege of vagrancy without check or limit; and owing to their universal distribution and the freemasonry among themselves, the secret disposition of every family in England was intimately known to them. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) If women who are so heavily handicapped in the race of life can run it to such a large extent without resorting to vagrancy, so can men. Crime and Its Causes In 1595 vagrancy had assumed such alarming proportions in London that a provost- marshal was appointed to give the wanderers the short shrift of martial law. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Belton was fined five dollars for vagrancy and was ordered to leave town within five hours. Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel We know that improvidence, idleness, vagrancy, and crime, are the fruits of emancipation; not only in the United States, but also in the West Indies. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery Having a small income of his own, the ex-Professor decided upon a life of investigatory vagrancy, with special reference to studies, at first hand, of the voluntarily unemployed. Success A Novel As a matter of fact the whole body of statistical information bearing upon vagrancy is rather unreliable in character, and it is difficult to see how it can be anything else. Crime and Its Causes Other Acts of the same reign dealing with vagrancy and the first poor-law are 39 Elizabeth, c. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Stringent laws on vagrancy, guardianship, and labor contracts were enacted and large discretion given judge and jury in cases of petty crime. The Negro "Quite a good epigram, that," said the tramp, who had been convicted for vagrancy. More Toasts In the first we are abandoned to a delightful, and perhaps as it seems holy or edifying vagrancy of thought. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day In some districts chief constables do not care to bring too many begging cases before the local magistrates; in other districts chief constables are zealous for the rooting out of vagrancy. Crime and Its Causes Fortunately the psychologists have made it unnecessary to explain that there is nothing willful or personally reprehensible in the vagrancy of these vagrants. An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker The employing farmers complained bitterly of the scarcity of labor and of Negro "laziness," and secured the enactment of harsher vagrancy and labor contract laws, and statutes against the "enticement" of laborers. The Negro Strict statutes were passed by States on guardianship, vagrancy, and petty crimes. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making In a more stable community their apprehension by the village constable and arrest for vagrancy would have been immediate. A Daughter of the Snows An economic cause of an opposite character to vagrancy has by some been considered as accounting for the facts now under consideration. Crime and Its Causes If unemployment and vagrancy are the product of our careless, indifferent society over the half-century, then its cure will come only by a half-century's careful regretful social labor by this same tardy society. An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Before Tchelkache's inward vision, was rapidly unfolded a series of pictures of the past—that far distant past separated from the present by a wall of eleven years of vagrancy. Twenty-six and One and Other Stories His hours of social vagrancy really completed the process of his intellectual training. The Promise of American Life Septimus, however, had always dwelt in her heart like a stray dog whom she had rescued from vagrancy. Septimus The only kind of crime that increases in Surrey in winter is vagrancy; the growth of this offence for the years I have mentioned in January, as contrasted with July was 60 per cent. Crime and Its Causes Fines and imprisonment for vagrancy, contempt of court, or non-payment of tithes, were the ordinary discipline for all; but there were cases here and there of whipping by the hangman, and other more ferocious cruelties. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 As he has, so far, lived only in the society of tramps, himself a tramp, and one of the most refractory, it has been reserved for him to write the poem of vagrancy. Twenty-six and One and Other Stories Hence it is a breach of moral obligation for parents, whether rich or poor, to permit their children to grow up in idleness and vagrancy. The Christian Home The nation's strongest safeguards lie In free and unencumbered homes; Not in its hordes of vagrancy, Nor in its proud, palatial domes; Nor can the mercenary sword E'er cross with that the freeman draws. Mountain idylls, and Other Poems If further proof were wanted that vagrancy, as far, at least, as England and Wales are concerned, is very seldom produced by destitution, it will be found in the following facts. Crime and Its Causes To read th' papers, it seems to be a kind iv a vagrancy law. Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Through the wall Father Sisoy was snoring in the next room, and his aged snore had a sound that suggested loneliness, forlornness, even vagrancy. The Bishop and Other Stories The charge of vagrancy was very inclusive, and a man could skirt very near the edge of felony and still manage to achieve a nominal punishment. Broken to the Plow Their crimes were—one-third, drunken disturbance and vagrancy; another third, robberies of various kinds; a fourth, wounding and homicides, mostly arising out of quarrels; leaving a small residue for all other crimes. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern The conduct of policemen and magistrates towards the begging fraternity is largely shaped by the dominant public mood, and the statistics of vagrancy move up and down in sympathy with it. Crime and Its Causes A long list of disqualifying crimes was added, including wife-beating and conviction for vagrancy. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution For now he would divert me to another topic and again bring me back to her, so that it all seemed the vagrancies of a boy's inconsequent chatter. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories The judge of the local court finally decided to send both men away for six months on a charge of vagrancy. The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron At fourteen he was fierce and rebellious and down on the Juvenile Court records for truancy, petty trafficking in burned-out opium, vandalism, and gang vagrancy. The Vertical City The second cause which leads a certain number of elderly men to adopt a life of vagrancy is to be attributed to the action of Trades-Unions. Crime and Its Causes A certain vagrancy in our spirits impels us to take walks at night, and to saunter under the stars. The Man Who Laughs He had not sat there since the day of his indictment for vagrancy. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Of this vacillation and vagrancy of mind I impute a great part to a fortuitous and unsettled life, and therefore purpose to spend my life with more method. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays Immediately after the war legislation enacted in the South made severe provision with reference to vagrancy. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia Before dismissing the question of the relations between vagrancy and destitution there is one more point which still requires to be considered. Crime and Its Causes Iron and fire were in the code: the law practised the cauterization of vagrancy. The Man Who Laughs These regulations are based upon the assumption that labor is a public duty, and idleness and vagrancy a crime. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation Arriving there, he was arrested on a charge of vagrancy. The Book of American Negro Poetry The non-slaveholders will continue in "a life alternating between listless vagrancy and the excitement of marauding expeditions." American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ah! wild wit, now at last Thy vagrancies are o'er; The ear and gazing eye That you enthrall'd before. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 And it was in quest of such vagrancy of ideas and affections that he was going. The Lake I found no one who imagined that his freedom conferred the right of idleness and vagrancy. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation Scarcely had he recovered the shock of being ran away with by my aunt, before, terminating for ever his vagrancies, he was ran through by my uncle. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 Some others were sold in various states under laws applying to negro vagrancy, illegal residence, or even to default of jail fees during imprisonment as fugitive suspects. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Further, it is apparent that in all these countries the types of habitual criminality, with the exception of thefts and vagrancy, are in greater proportion at the assizes, on account of their serious character. Criminal Sociology No wonder it is reported that vagrancy has much increased in some large towns on account of discharged prisoners taking to begging, having no other resource. In Darkest England and the Way Out The major cause for his lying as well as other delinquencies, particularly his vagrancy, is, of course, the mental traits peculiar to epilepsy. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology It's a religious conviction with him, and with most of 'em it's a gambling fever or pure vagrancy. The Song of the Lark He was impatient for the curtain to rise—besides, he had empty pockets and might be prevented from his climax by a vulgar arrest for vagrancy. The Fortune Hunter To natural viciousness and vagrancy are being daily added motives of revolt and revenge which stir up all the latent savagery of both races and make peaceful attention to economic development often impossible. The Souls of Black Folk I didn't care for the drinking, nor the vagrancy of it, and I wandered back to the Oakland Free Library and read the books with greater understanding. John Barleycorn And what in the world possessed you to choose our barns as the centre of your operations, and nearly put me to the necessity of having you arrested for vagrancy? Tales from Two Hemispheres With so much time to talk, and no definite object to be led up to, she could taste the rare joys of mental vagrancy. House of Mirth The Thirteenth Amendment had forbidden slavery, but the southern states had passed apprentice and vagrancy laws which reduced the negro to a condition closely resembling slavery in certain of its aspects. The United States Since the Civil War No," she said, in answer to my inquiry, "there is no real want here, and no vagrancy. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" "But does not the vagrancy law protect you?" Fifteen Years with the Outcast The next morning, Halfdan was released from the Police Station, having first been fined five dollars for vagrancy. Tales from Two Hemispheres Just as good people in foreign parts sometimes allow themselves unwonted liberties, so vagrancy increases crime. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene At Hastings, which may also be called the metropolis of vagrancy, it is impossible to keep a poor little wallflower or a primrose in one's garden. The Roof of France If the authorities of the Alpes Maritimes have set themselves to put down vagrancy, they have certainly succeeded. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" There are a hundred ways of framing apprenticeship, vagrancy, or contract laws, which will serve the purpose. Report on the Condition of the South When out of jail he was engaged in oyster opening at Couch's saloon, or selling fresh fish, caught in the river, or vagrancy in the streets of Brickville. Tales from Bohemia GUILDHALL.—R.S—-, a clergyman who, we understand, once enjoyed considerable popularity, was brought before Alderman BROWN, on a charge of having committed an act of vagrancy. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 We are in one of the poorest departments of France, but no signs of want or vagrancy are seen. The Roof of France As soon as the tribes were converted they perceived the evils attendant on their former state of ignorance and vagrancy. Canadian Crusoes It may be said that where the Freedmen's Bureau is best organized there is least vagrancy among the negroes. Report on the Condition of the South As a matter of fact she had been accused of begging, vagrancy, and attempted arson. Selected Polish Tales He hardly came under the vagrancy law, since he had neither begged, nor helped himself appreciably to the means of subsistence. The Desert and the Sown The great neatness and tidiness of the country people, and the absence of vagrancy, are very striking. The Roof of France Many abandoned their dissolute habits and became sober and moral men; discord and contentions gave place to harmony and order, and vagrancy and sloth to ambition and industry. Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians A similar measure would do more to stop negro vagrancy in the south than the severest penal laws. Report on the Condition of the South Or for vagrancy; or on suspicion of having robbed a bank in Texas, or murdered your great-grandmother in Tasmania. King Coal : a Novel Somewhat arbitrary episodes, therefore, are these two last chapters; yet still endurable as occurring in a work confessedly rambling, and whose very duty lies in the pleasant paths of vagrancy. Autobiographical Sketches Some of these writers have aimed to exaggerate the vagrancy of the blacks to justify the radical procedure of the whites in dealing with it. A Century of Negro Migration There was vagrancy in the smile of his singularly sensitive mouth and vagrancy in the relaxed way that he rode. Over the Pass After a year of vagrancy and starvation he was found by his family and allowed to go to Oxford, where his career was marked by the most brilliant and erratic scholarship. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World A half-hour she lay so in the warm bath of light, her little body so quickly fallen into vagrancy not without litheness beneath the moldy skirt. Gaslight Sonatas During these months of "luxurious vagrancy" he described in the most vivid way many of the most notable features of the Sandwich Islands. Mark Twain History shows that such vagrancy has always followed the immediate emancipation of a large number of slaves. A Century of Negro Migration There are no paupers among them but the lunatics and the lepers, and vagrancy is unknown. The Hawaiian Archipelago A curious attempt was made to deal with the problem of vagrancy, the outcome of prevalent economic conditions, which the penalties of flogging and hanging had failed to repress. England under the Tudors The wardmoot had inquest jurisdiction over immorality or bad behavior such as vagrancy, delinquency, illegitimacy, and disputes. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III This is the special epoch of the sanguinary vagrancy laws, the most sanguinary of which was framed by the hand of Henry VIII. Lectures and Essays In this respect the South did itself a great injury, for many of the provisions of the black codes, especially the vagrancy laws, were unnecessary. A Century of Negro Migration As a boy hobo, or road- kid, he drifted on across the United States, getting acquainted with its peace officers, police judges, vagrancy laws, and jails. The Little Lady of the Big House We got some light on that, which ought to convince anybody, when under Mayor Strong's administration we tried to deal intelligently with vagrancy. The Making of an American His name was read, and the charge—vagrancy. Samuel the Seeker Through proclamation attention of local authorities was directed to an old law making vagrancy an offense and it was applied rigorously. The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox The South, however, was not disposed to look at the vagrancy of the ex-slaves so philosophically. A Century of Negro Migration Women who are beaten and trampled under foot by those who should be their comfort and protection are generally relieved when they take to vagrancy as a profession. At Last Macquart, however, predominated in him, with his love of vagrancy, his tendency to drunkenness, and his brutish savagery. The Fortune of the Rougons Therefore, for example, there are in most of our communities laws against vagrancy; that is, against willful and habitual idlers "without visible means of support," such as beggars and tramps. Community Civics and Rural Life Frank A. Mallin went to the central police station Wednesday night and asked to be locked up on a charge of vagrancy. Revolution, and Other Essays The worst part of all is that the children become utterly unfitted for any occupation except vagrancy and theft.' Cast Adrift "So much for the encouragement of vagrancy," said Suspicion. All's for the Best At the close of two years of this listless, solitary life, Crockett, without any assigned reason, probably influenced only by that vagrancy of spirit which had taken entire possession of the man, made another move. David Crockett His Life and Adventures The right of banishment was transformed into the law of vagrancy. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom I'm expecting to receive fifty years at hard labor for vagrancy. Rolling Stones He who gives to them wastes his money and encourages thieving and vagrancy. Cast Adrift I had no health to remain, no heart to come home; and then came vagrancy indeed. The Trial The next sixteen years were full of happy vagrancy. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters The latter was, after all, a good enough fellow; his only besetting sin being unconquerable laziness, and his only crime in the eyes of the law perpetual vagrancy. Within an Inch of His Life There was one thing which he and I abolished—police lodging-houses, which were simply tramp lodging-houses, and a fruitful encouragement to vagrancy. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography But it was only yesterday that I told a tramp the square truth, to wit, that, it being regarded as bad citizenship to encourage vagrancy, I would give him nothing. The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut They arrested some gypsies, but couldn't prove anything; shut one of 'em up for vagrancy, too,—but that didn't do us any good, either. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) The obstacles placed in the way of sturdy vagrancy by an unphilosophical police have, perhaps, proved too formidable for philosophical consistency. Evolution and Ethics Even in 1865, the general disposition was to make uniform laws for both races, except in regard to violation of contracts, immoral conduct, vagrancy, marriage, schools, and forms of punishment. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states Old vagrancies awoke, and he resolved that, dearly as he loved his house, he would not enter it again till dawn. The Longest Journey Her truancies and vagrancies concerned them not: she was a law to herself, like the birds and squirrels. Openings in the Old Trail He fought shy of villages during daylight, fearing that he might be arrested for vagrancy and locked up. The Circus Boys in Dixie Land : or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South It was a clear case of disorderly vagrancy, and she was committed to prison for a month. Mary Barton But the laws relating to apprenticeship, vagrancy, and enforced punitive employment turned out to be of greater practical importance. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states In the spring of 1830, shortly after he came of age, he agreed for once with his father whose chronic vagrancy had reasserted itself. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Chief Dinan has determined that those who apply for relief and refuse work when it is offered them shall leave the city or be arrested for vagrancy. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Can it be wondered at that these people are dirty and idle; and that many of them ultimately prefer the settled conditions of prison or workhouse life, or take to vagrancy? London's Underworld The change in the position of the peasantry, together with the hardships and oppression by which it was accompanied, naturally increased fugitivism and vagrancy. Russia The Negro was regarded as "the ward of the nation," but he was told impressively that "labor is a public duty and idleness and vagrancy a crime." The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states "Answer the question," ordered the judge, "or I'll send you up for vagrancy." The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it He then continues: “This experience reiterated the lesson that the vast majority of these wanderers are of the class with whom a life of vagrancy is a chosen means of living without work.” War of the Classes The parents evidently have been bred in vagrancy, and the children, and, unless the law intervenes, their children are destined to continue the species. London's Underworld And even there they were frustrated, for stringent vagrancy laws were passed and rigidly enforced. The Iron Heel The principal petty offenses were, it would seem, vagrancy and "enticing away" laborers or apprentices. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states Give a muzhik enough to live upon for twelve months without working, and you will corrupt him for ever, so inured to rags and vagrancy will he grow. Dead Souls The crime of not earning a living, in their case, is called vagrancy. The Sea Wolf |
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