vagrancy
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- Instance of
- activity
- Subclass of
- homelessness
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- John Everett Millais - The Blind Girl, 1854-56.jpg
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- Vagrancy
- practiced by
- vagrant
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- vagrant
- topic's main category
- Category:Vagrancy
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thumb|John Everett Millais' [[The Blind Girl, depicting a vagrant musician]]
Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft. In Western countries, vagrancy was historically a crime punishable with forced labor, military service, imprisonment, or confinement to dedicated labor houses.
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