What's the difference between vagancy and vagrancy?
Vagancy
Definition:
(n.) A wandering; vagrancy.
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Vagrancy
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
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(1) The deaths occurred in what was described in court as "the nether world" of alcoholic vagrancy into which the death of her husband plunged her.
(2) Excluding vagrancy, because of a change in police arrest practice, we found only a 14% reduction in criminal charges.
(3) Results indicated: (1) 67% of the alcoholics had no arrests before or after hospitalization; (2) prehospitalization arrest rates of alcoholics were higher than the general population for robbery, assault, sex offenses, theft, public intoxication, drunk driving, traffic offenses, and vagrancy; (3) following hospitalization, alcoholic arrest rates were reduced significantly in all categories except robbery and embezzlement and fraud; and (4) posthospitalization alcoholic arrest rates were lower than the general population for all offenses except robbery, public intoxication, and DWI.
(4) The number of cases brought to court under the 1824 Vagrancy Act has surged by 70%, prompting concerns that cuts to support services and benefits are pushing more people to resort to begging.
(5) Harassment, intimidation and wanton arrest were integral to the fabric of young black life, invariably applied by flagrant abuse of the so-called suspected persons, or "sus" law, a section of the 1824 Vagrancy Act that permitted police officers to arrest anyone loitering "with intent to commit an arrestable offence" – which in Britain's ghettoes had come to mean almost anyone between the ages of 13 and 30.
(6) The reasons why the patients remained untreated for so long are considered, and include vagrancy, living with high Expressed Emotion relatives, and neglect in the community.
(7) The Vatican felt compelled to comment, charging Taylor with "erotic vagrancy".
(8) Crofts is a child of the 1960s who seems to have transformed a secret vagrancy into a way of life.
(9) The authors, after defining the words "vagrancy" and "vagrant", explore their semantical field and try to specify differences in respect of neighbouring words, often confused with them.
(10) An historical sketch of vagrancy, from antiquity to the present era, is depicted.
(11) The present article focuses on the adverse effect of drug abuse on industry, education and training and the family, as well as on its contribution to violence, crime, financial problems, housing problems, homelessness and vagrancy.
(12) An invariable association of persisting ventral mesogastrium with abnormalities in colonic anatomy (hepatocolonic vagrancy) is described.
(13) Every time a minister announces a clampdown on access to benefits, or a zero-tolerance attitude to vagrancy – which in Cameron's article this morning is undoubtedly meant to be read as "Go home, Roma" – they also chip away at the delicate tissue of mutual obligation that sustains social cohesion.
(14) Among 327 offences that have recently been purged from the statute book was that of "being an incorrigible rogue", under the Vagrancy Act 1824.
(15) but then again, we're threatening to prosecute people for "vagrancy" now, so why restrict our pre-industrial revolution nostalgia to language?
(16) Elsewhere, Ian Beale's journey from mute vagrancy to spluttering sentience continues apace.
(17) In a recent report , the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty found that between 2011 and 2014, city-wide bans on camping in public increased by 60%, loitering, loafing and vagrancy laws by 35% and bans on sleeping in vehicles by 119%.
(18) Crime and policing Change procedures to make it easier for people to make a citizen's arrest for vagrancy, drunkenness, weapons and low level disorder "to help improve Met clear up rates", and introduce an "offend on Saturday, face court on Monday" zero tolerance approach to gangs, knife crime and antisocial behaviour.
(19) Figures provided by the Crown Prosecution Service following a freedom of information request show there were 2,771 cases brought before magistrates courts in England and Wales under section 3 of the Vagrancy Act, which deals with begging, in 2013-14, compared with 1,626 the previous year.
(20) The last part of the paper considers psychopathology of vagrancy, specially in psychoanalytical and phenomenological approaches, and problems of rehabilitation.