Attempts to Regulate Vagrancy of Gypsies in the First Ten Years of the Czechoslovak Republic Cover Image

Snahy o regulaci tuláckého života Cikánů v prvém desetiletí ČSR
Attempts to Regulate Vagrancy of Gypsies in the First Ten Years of the Czechoslovak Republic

Author(s): Ladislav Soukup
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Gypsies; Gypsy passport; local police; forcible work place; vagrants; prison; expulsion; sluggards; beggars

Summary/Abstract: After the Czechoslovak Republic was constituted, its citizens and self-governing bodies requested that the state institutions restrict the vagrant life particularly of Gypsies. In the first years of the existence of the state, the Ministry of the Interior, through the local police, applied the laws from the monarchy to control and penalize vagrants who were unable to prove the legal way of obtaining their living subsistence. Since 1922 and 1923 the records of Gypsies were collected.

  • Issue Year: 59/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 117-132
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech