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 abuse of vagrancy laws by the police throughout the United States was common. Such laws were vague and undefined, allowing police to arrest persons merely on the suspicion they were about to do something illegal. In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court addressed this problem in Papachristou v. Jacksonville, 405 U.S. 156, 92 S. Ct. 839, 31 L. Ed. 2d 110.