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The condition, once considered a crime, of being without work or permanent home and dependent on begging/ Until the 1970s police used vagrancy laws to charge (or threaten) "undesirable" persons who might be suspected of criminal activity. Since then courts have struck down vagrancy laws as unconstitutionally vague.(See also: loiter)
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