Essays on Vagrancy

The enactment of the Black Codes took place after the Civil War and at the beginning of the Reconstruction Era. The Reconstruction Era was a period that focused on the transformation of the United States (“Reconstruction: The Challenge of Freedom”, n.p). The Black Codes were passed with the aim of restricting the freedom of the African Americans. The laws also had the capability of compelling the blacks to work for low wages or debt in the labor economy (“Black Codes”, n.p). The enactment of the Black Codes should not have taken place as it was a propagation of racial ...

Evaluating the Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

Bibliography In the aftermath of the Civil War, Reconstruction of the South took place between 1865 and 1877 under the auspices of three American presidents. While Southerners did not embrace the process, which resulted in the germination of various obstacles and problems that ultimately rendered it quite unsuccessful, as slavery reappeared in debt peonage. Moreover, racism escalated due to latent antagonists by Southern Democrats against newly freed African Americans. When the Civil War was nearing its end in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln began devising a blueprint for the social, economic, physical, and political rehabilitation in the South, which was a ...

Introduction

Vagrancy is associated with homelessness and is not tolerated by the States with regulated society. Although homelessness is a pitiable condition, it is criminalized because of vagrancy. Once vagrancy was viewed unlawful for a different reason of shortage of workers. The first law of vagrancy was introduced by England in 1349 making it unlawful not to work if physically fit. Vagrancy was liable to be punished with 15 days of imprisonment. Vagrancy law in due course (by 1530) shifted its focus towards suspicious or criminal behavior. Originally vagrancy was not tolerated due to shortage of workers due to Plague in 1348. ...

- Discuss what Marquis means by ‘vagging’? How does the distinction between 'vagging' and not play a role in a more expansive definition of 'policing'? Answer: According to the article written by Marquis entitled, The Police as a Social Service, he defined vagging as a means of arresting people or persons who are practicing the act of ‘vagrancy’. Marquis (1992) argues that vagrancy is the state of homelessness or a person living as a vagrant, idle and without any support at all. The Vagrancy Act was created to prevent vagging which leads to violence and crimes. “In Toronto, an embarkation point for ...

The prostitution legality in Europe differs from one country to another. A number of nations criminalize the act of getting involved in sexual practice for money as others permit prostitution itself although not the majority types of procuring, for instance, facilitating another person’s prostitution, running brothels, acquiring financial benefit from another person’s prostitution or even accosting. Prostitution is legitimate and regulated in eight nations in Europe including Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey as well as Latvia. The extent of social control of the laws of anti-prostitution also differs from one nation to another, one region ...

Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives (Opinion and Analysis) In How the Other Half Lives, author Jacob Riis has provided pictures of his main subject – people living in squalor within the area New York City. The photos have served as supplementary materials for all of his readers that actually took interest in the way urban conditions look like during the period. The descriptions Riis has given in discussing details of “the other half” made his written claims more convincing. The visual quality provided by his photos made his accounts more credible (Riis 19). ...