Vagrancy - Wikipedia Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income Vagrants [a] usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft
Vagrancy - Definition, Examples, Cases, Processes The term vagrancy refers to the act of being homeless, without evident means of supporting oneself when able to work As far as vagrancy laws are concerned, this definition is combined with such acts as loitering, being drunk in public, prostitution, and other actions
Vagrancy | Homelessness, Poverty Crime | Britannica vagrancy, state or action of one who has no established home and drifts from place to place without visible or lawful means of support Traditionally a vagrant was thought to be one who was able to work for his maintenance but preferred instead to live idly, often as a beggar
Vagrancy Law and Legal Definition | USLegal, Inc. In legal terminology, vagrancy refers to the offense of persons who are without visible means of support or domicile while able to work State laws and municipal ordinances punishing vagrancy often also cover loitering, associating with reputed criminals, prostitution, and drunkenness
United States Vagrancy Laws | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of . . . Vagrancy laws took myriad forms, generally making it a crime to be poor, idle, dissolute, immoral, drunk, lewd, or suspicious Vagrancy laws often included prohibitions on loitering—wandering around without any apparent lawful purpose—though some jurisdictions criminalized loitering separately