Let's take a closer look at an example. A price ceiling is the maximum price that can be charged. If the price is set below the equilibrium price, the price ceiling is said to be effective (or binding).
Criminal vagrancy laws were originally aimed at those wanderers and. beggars physically capable of working.24 However, in 1744 vagrancy. crimes were divided into three classes: idle and disorderly persons, rogues and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues.
Until the mid-1960s, most states had broad vagrancy, loitering, and disorderly conduct laws. Vagrancy-style laws were employed at various times and in varying ways throughout American history to control the migration of the unemployed. They were also used after the Civil War to keep former slaves in conditions of servitude.