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Vagrancy.

Here are entered works on the criminal offense of being idle without visible means of support. Works on persons who travel about from place to place living on occasional jobs or gifts of money and food are entered under Tramps.

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• Vagrancy -- England
• Vagrancy -- United States
• Vagrancy in literature

• Vagabondage

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The History of a Pin (Edinburgh: A. Strahan and Co.; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1861), by E. M. S. (Emma M. Stirling), illust. by Robert Thorburn Ross (page images at Florida)

• Celebrated Crimes, by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retributive Justice (1882), by Francis Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, by Lysander Spooner (HTML with commentary at mind-trek.com)

• The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder Cases (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Henry Herbert Goddard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Major Barbara, with an Essay as First Aid to Critics (New York: Brentano's, 1920), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Romance of Real Life (3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1787), by Charlotte Smith, contrib. by François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rising Crime and the Dismembered Family: How Conformist Intellectuals Have Campaigned Against Common Sense (c1993), by Norman Dennis (PDF at Civitas)
• The English Convict: A Statistical Study (1913), by Charles Goring (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Crime: From the Cradle to the Grave (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1908), by Hargrave Lee Adam
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries, by Charles E. Pearce (HTML with commentary at charlespearce.org)
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries (London, S. Paul and Co., c1924), by Charles E. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
• Scenes from a Silent World: or Prisons and Their Inmates, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15; London: Stevens and Sons, 1963), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)

• Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Peter Baldwin (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Illinois Crime Survey (1929), by Illinois Association for Criminal Justice (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)
• De Mau Mau: A Factual Account of Racism in the White Press (ca. 1973), by De Mau Mau Defense Fund (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Story of a West Indian Policeman: or, Forty-Seven Years in the Jamaica Constabulary (Kingston: The Gleaner Co., 1927), by Herbert T. Thomas
  • page images at dloc.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Crimes of Need: Results of the Malawi National Crime Victimisation Survey (2004), by Eric Pelser, Patrick Burton, and Lameck Gondwe (PDF (without cover) with commentary at issafrica.org)

• The Cry of Sodom Enquired Into, Upon Occasion of the Arraignment and Condemnation of Benjamin Goad, for His Prodigious Villany, by Samuel Danforth, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)

• The Vigilantes of Montana: or, Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains (Virginia City, MT: Montana Post Press, 1866), by Thos. J. Dimsdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vigilantes of Montana: or, Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains (fourth edition, with Noyes's History of Southern Montana; Helena: State Pub. Co., n.d.), by Thos. J. Dimsdale, contrib. by Alva Josiah Noyes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)

• True Detective (partial serial archives)
• National Police Gazette (partial serial archives)
• Official Detective Stories (partial serial archives)

• Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri (Gutenberg text)

• Victimisation in Tanzania: Surveys of Crime in Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara (2004), by Aki Stavrou and Jennifer O'Riordan (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Authentic History of Sam Bass and His Gang (originally published 1878, attributed to "A Citizen of Denton County" and later to Bates; reprinted Bandera, TX: Frontier Times, 1950), by Edmond Franklin Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life and Adventures of Sam Bass, the Notorious Union Pacific and Texas Train Robber (Dallas: Dallas Commercial Steam Print, 1878)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Improvement and Reform of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in the United States: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Crime, House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 17 (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Select Committee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the Community (originally published 1938; this edition New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963), by Frank Tannenbaum, contrib. by Morris Ploscowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Age of Crime (New York: Mohawk Press, 1931), by Arthur B. Reeve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1884), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• America's Social Revolution (c2001), by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Is a Crime Wave Coming? (GI Roundtable #3; 1946), by Thorsten Sellin (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• The Giant Killers (New York: R.M. McBride, c1945), by Alan Hynd (page images at HathiTrust)
• American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials Which Have Taken Place in the United States From the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day (17 volumes; St. Louis: Thomas Law Book Co., 1914-1928), ed. by John D. Lawson
  • Volumes 1-13: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 14: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 15-16: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 17: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Prisoner at the Bar: Sidelights on the Administration of Criminal Justice (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The United States Criminal Calendar, or An Awful Warning to the Youth of America: Being an Account of the Most Horrid Murders, Piraces, Highway Robberies, &c. &c. (Boston: C. Gaylord, 1840), ed. by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries, by Charles E. Pearce (HTML with commentary at charlespearce.org)
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries (London, S. Paul and Co., c1924), by Charles E. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courts and Criminals, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1897), by Cleveland Moffett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

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