Status Offense
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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.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.