History - Crime and punishment - Early Modern - Reasons for Vagabonds

1500 - 1700:

Reasons for Vagrancy:

Population:

• Steadily rising from 1500s
• Too many people with not enough work to go around
• Result was rising unemployment

Unemployment:

• In medieval times, no-one had to move about and wan't allowed to
• 1500s: unemployment forced people to move about to find work

London:

• City with greatest…