While this was certainly a central concern of colonial legislators in attacking vagrancy, so too was the protection of enclosed property in land and livestock from trespass and theft.
Huge numbers of older children found themselves jailed for vagrancy as a result.
If they maintained this regime, vagrancy and improvidence would be encouraged, and they contemplated discontinuing all casual daytime relief.
Yet, already in the 19th century, approaches to poverty and poverty relief incorporated distinctly modern elements in their condemnation of begging and vagrancy.
There were four senses in which quality of worker or similar terms were used, and these were vagrancy, shirking, industriousness, and mobilization.
Although the prison registers do not detail the exact reason for imprisonment, they often indicate when the crime was accompanied with violence, alcohol and vagrancy.
The mid-nineteenth-century employer in the tea districts was clearly worried about vagrancy.
As has timelessly characterised debates about the causes of vagrancy and indigent poverty, commentators tend to favour either ' structural' or 'behavioural ' explanations (and strongly disagree).
