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AUST. & N.Z. JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (June, 1971): 4, 2 65 Vagrancy: Insufficient Lawful Means of Support IT has been reported! that the State Government of Victoria will introduce legislation bringing about changes in the law on vagrancy. The Minister assisting the Attorney-General (Mr. Hunt) is stated to have said: "The Government accepted the criticism that mentally deficient people and alcoholics were sometimes dealt with under this law and imprisoned." In a somewhat emotive speech, the Leader of the opposttton in the Legisla tive Council (Mr. J. Galbally, Q.C.) is reported to have commented>: "Poverty is condemned as a crime and the offender treated as a criminal" and "The Victorian Vagrancy Act casts a net wide enough to catch even the founder of Christianity." It is difficult to make out a case for a sentence of imprisonment to be passed on a man who is apparently of insufficient lawful means of support as does happen (Vagrancy Act, 1966, s.5) and a man, John Allen», was sentenced in a Bathurst Court to two months hard labor, he having pleaded guilty to the charge and having stated that he had applied for an invalid pension on the basis of a heart
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE
Published: Jun 1, 1971
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