Vagrancy

Many others were poor or homeless, but were jailed with hardened adult criminals because authorities often had no other place to put them when their parents died or could no longer shoulder the burden of care and upbringing. Begging and vagrancy, being poor and neglected were nineteenth century crimes whether a person was fifty years old or ten, so prisons and almshouses sometimes warehoused children whose only crime was that they had parents who could not care for them. (Abrams, 2004, p.9).…

Mexicans faced the Mexican Miner’s Tax that taxed the Mexican people that mined for gold. Even if the land was there home originally the Mexican people were now seen as immigrants. One of the strangest things to me to read this week was the Anti-Vagrancy…

Prime Minister Mackenzie King wrote in his dairy a day after the 1930 federal election that he did not care much for his loss in the election and that he was glad to throw the responsibility of finding a solution to unemployment problems to newly elected Prime Minister, R.B Bennett. R.B Bennett who took the responsibility of Canada when it was in a great economical depression is often blamed for his inability to cope with the depression and a series of dark historical event: On-To-Ottawa Trek…

Social Problem Addressed by Policy Families First is Tennessee 's welfare change engineer that supplanted the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. Tennessee 's TANF is moreover called Tennessee Families First. Impermanent sponsorship for poor families is an association/state program that supply help to blue families with children. Purposes of interest contain models of distress and affiliation portions, are frequently surrendered over to the states, slanted to certain…

Bartleby, the Scrivener Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville, is a story that takes place on Wall Street, in New York, New York. The narrator of this story is the Lawyer, whom he describes himself as “a rather elderly man”. The lawyer is the epitome of a conservative that conforms to the societal norms and expectations. He has the idealism that “the easiest way of life is the best”. Running a law firm, he has multiple employees: Ginger Nut, an ambitious twelve year old son of a cab…

After the Civil War, many African Americans were victims of what is known as, convict leasing. Convict leasing had prisoners were a source of profit and were leased to private industries and business owners at a minimal cost. Therefore, Pig Laws, Vagrancy laws, and Peonage laws were created to criminalize Black life. More than 2/3 of Blacks were convicted of vague charges. Blacks were forced into labor, and faced conditions that were inhumane. They worked in dangerous conditions where toxic…

Crime and the 21st Century: Applying the Strain Theory Crime in the 21st century as a whole is on the decline. From 2003 until 2012, there was a 12.2 percent drop in violent crime and a -14 percent drop in property crime. In 2012, according to the UCR data on violent crime and property crime, there were 1,214,462 violent crimes reported and 8,975,438 property crimes reported. (FBI, 2013). These statistics show that there is still a significant amount of crime within the United States with…

The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) are two major sources of crime statistics commonly used in the United States (Sources of Crime Data: Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System, n.d.). Crime statistics is a complex process because it must revel accurate information when reporting the incidences of crime in society (Criminal Statistics, 1998). Crime statistics first took shape in France around 1827. It is now…

Reconstruction period, they were greeted with hate, the influence of black codes and Jim Crow/convict laws enforced segregation legally and inequality in every aspect of society. Alexander states “clearly, the purpose of the black codes in general and the vagrancy laws in particular was to establish another system of forced labor” (28). Many racially driven hate groups formed during the aftermath of the civil war and beyond, that still terrorizes Black people today. Eventually the Civil Rights…

Homeless populations are most prevalent in urban areas that have high costs of living. A study released revealed the fact that approximately 745,000 people across the United States were without housing during the winter, more than 40% did not have access to any form of shelter. The large and growing number of homeless people in the United States continues to be a major crisis that has not been solved. The Government needs to increase the availability of affordable housing and social services to…