Laws of the Various States Relating to Vagrancy (Classic Reprint)
Laws of the Various States Relating to Vagrancy (Classic Reprint)

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781332318926

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Excerpt from Laws of the Various States Relating to Vagrancy This compilation is a revision of the Bulletin, of the same title, issued in 1910, and is the work of Miss Olive C. Lathrop, of the Legislative Reference Department, who has brought the same down to date. The laws referring to rogues, tramps, vagabonds and vagrant children have been included with the laws relating to vagrancy. Several of the states have, in their statutes, defined various offenses, including vagrancy, as an aid to framing municipal ordinances. In other states, where home rule prevails, this function has been left to the municipality. In this compilation such definition, for purely municipal purposes, has not been included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Vagrancy Laws and Vagrants
Vagrancy Laws and Vagrants

Author: John Lambert

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780267941018

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Excerpt from Vagrancy Laws and Vagrants: A Lecture, Delivered to the Members of the Salisbury Literary and Scientific Institution, at Their Request, on Monday, March 23, 1868 There are no data from which we can estimate the number of the mendicants and vagrants of this period of our history but In the reign of Henry VII. It became so great as to excite the alarm of the Government and the nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Vagrants and Vagabonds
Vagrants and Vagabonds

Author: Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1479845256

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The riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States Vagrants. Vagabonds. Hoboes. Identified by myriad names, the homeless and geographically mobile have been with us since the earliest periods of recorded history. In the early days of the United States, these poor migrants – consisting of everyone from work-seekers to runaway slaves – populated the roads and streets of major cities and towns. These individuals were a part of a social class whose geographical movements broke settlement laws, penal codes, and welfare policies. This book documents their travels and experiences across the Atlantic world, excavating their life stories from the records of criminal justice systems and relief organizations. Vagrants and Vagabonds examines the subsistence activities of the mobile poor, from migration to wage labor to petty theft, and how local and state municipal authorities criminalized these activities, prompting extensive punishment. Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan examines the intertwined legal constructions, experiences, and responses to these so-called “vagrants,” arguing that we can glean important insights about poverty and class in this period by paying careful attention to mobility. This book charts why and how the itinerant poor were subject to imprisonment and forced migration, and considers the relationship between race and the right to movement and residence in the antebellum US. Ultimately, Vagrants and Vagabonds argues that poor migrants, the laws designed to curtail their movements, and the people charged with managing them, were central to shaping everything from the role of the state to contemporary conceptions of community to class and labor status, the spread of disease, and punishment in the early American republic.

The Tramp in America
The Tramp in America

Author: Tim Cresswell

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781861890696

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This book provides the first account of the invention of the tramp as a social type in the United States between the 1870s and the 1930s. Tim Cresswell considers the ways in which the tramp was imagined and described and how, by World War II, it was being reclassified and rendered invisible. He describes the "tramp scare" of the late nineteenth century and explores the assumption that tramps were invariably male and therefore a threat to women. Cresswell also examines tramps as comic figures and looks at the work of prominent American photographers which signaled a sympathetic portrayal of this often-despised group. Perhaps most significantly, The Tramp in America calls into question the common assumption that mobility played a central role in the production of American identity. “This is an effective, and sometimes touching, account of how a social phenomenon was created, classified and reclassified. The quality of the writing, the excellent illustrations and the high production standards give this reasonably-priced hardback a chance of appealing to a general audience . . . an important contribution to American studies, providing new perspectives on the significance of mobility and rootlessness at an important time in the development of the nation. Cresswell successfully illuminates the history of a disadvantaged and marginal group, while providing a lens by which to focus on the thinking and practices of the mainstream culture with which they dealt. As such, this book represents a considerable achievement.”—Cultural Geographies “An important book. Cresswell has made an important contribution to a homelessness literature still lacking a more sophisticated theoretical edge. Clearly written, beautifully illustrated and with a strong argument throughout, the book deserves to be widely read by students and practitioners alike.”—Progress in Human Geography

Vagrancy in Special Relation to the Berkshire System
Vagrancy in Special Relation to the Berkshire System

Author: J. H. Borrer

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-04

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780267767083

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Excerpt from Vagrancy in Special Relation to the Berkshire System: A Paper Read at the West Midland Poor Law Conference, 1882 There is one alteration in the Local Government Board's Orders which would certainly be desirable as a complement of the system about to be explained, namely a relaxation of the rule that vagrants may not be admitted to the workhouses before six o'clock in winter, or eight-o'clock m summer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Decedent Estate Law of the State of New York
Decedent Estate Law of the State of New York

Author: Robert Ludlow Fowler

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 9780267093342

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Excerpt from Decedent Estate Law of the State of New York: Chapter Thirteen of the Consolidated Laws (Became a Law February 17, 1909; Chapter 18, Laws of 1909); Together With All Amendments In the pages of this work concerned with the scheme of a will, the author has preferred to state general principles, rather than to pre sent precedents of wills. It is conceived that the intelligent reader, familiar with principles, can have little use for stereotyped forms of wills, which are generally too rigid for any practical application in other cases. The writer desires to explain that in the course of preparing the present book he deemed it economical to refer the reader to his other writings, as they really constitute separate parts of one complete design, the foundations of which were laid down many years since. Otherwise, voluminous repetitions, which would have enlarged its scope beyond reasonable limits, might have ensued in this volume. This explanation will afford also the writer's apology for cross references to his own prior writings. Without this explanation, such cross-references would, doubtless, appear to be unseemly. With such explanation, the author trusts the reason for the method adopted will not be misunderstood by the indulgent reader. This particular treatise is an attempt to furnish, in some detail, the history and theory of application of the Decedent Estate Law. That the treatise itself completely fulfils the author's design can not be claimed. Its shortcomings the generous reader will, however, doubt less, overlook, in consideration of the value of the documentary material, collected in this volume and highly explanatory of the Decedent Estate Law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Textures of Place
Textures of Place

Author: Paul C. Adams

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780816637577

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A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos.

The Flogging of Vagrants (Classic Reprint)
The Flogging of Vagrants (Classic Reprint)

Author: Joseph Collinson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-06

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781396658754

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Excerpt from The Flogging of Vagrants The worst parts of the statute are exclusively English, flogging being other portions of the United Kingdom. The Scotch and Irish have never adopted it, and its infliction would be contrary to their laws. With regard to Scotland, the Lord Advocate stated in - th'e. House of Commons in 1902, in resisting the attempt of an English Member of Parliament to assimilate the Scotch' law with ours, when the Scottish Vagrancy Bill was passing through Committee, that the Scotch people would not tolerate a punishment of this degrading character in their country. The susceptibilities of r all classes of the community, he observed, would be severely offended if such a retrograde penalty were reimposed. No incon venience appears to have been caused in these countries from the want of power to flog vagrants, and after nearly ninety years of flogging under our medieval Vagrant Act the question may well be asked: Has there been any material reduction in English vagrancy as compared with Scotch and Irish? I am not aware that the offences for which flogging is still inflicted in England are more prevalent under the criminal codes of the sister countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Criminological Theories
Criminological Theories

Author: Imogene L. Moyer

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2001-07-26

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780803958517

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"Criminological Theories is organized in a chronological order, beginning with the 18th-century classical school - focusing on Beccaria and Bentham - and ending with the late 20th-century peacemaking perspective. In each chapter Moyer analyzes the assumptions the theorists have made about people and society and includes discussions of the cultural and historical settings in which the theories were developed, along with biographies of specific theorists and their lifetime contributions."--BOOK JACKET.