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West's Encyclopedia of American Law:
Status Offense |
A type of crime that is not based upon prohibited action or inaction but rests on the fact that the offender has a certain personal condition or is of a specified character.
Vagrancy — the act of traveling from place to place with no visible means of support — is an example of a status offense.
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