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.
In both states, blacks were given heavy penalties for vagrancy, including forced plantation labor in some cases. Under Johnsonâs policies of Presidential Reconstruction, nearly all the southern states would enact their own black codes in 1865 and 1866.