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.
The original American. colonial vagrancy laws actually had two components: crime prevention and poverty relief. Ma-. lone, supra note 15, at 755 n.18. However, the poverty relief components were more akin to a. crude form of welfare than to a form of criminal punishment.