To be sure, many jurisdictions prefer not to even recognize gang activity by making a legal offense about it. Gangs often thrive on a renegade status bestowed upon them by the adverse publicity of law enforcement crackdowns. Therefore, many jurisdictions prefer to incorporate the above gang activity indicators into civil abatement statutes. This involves using court-ordered injunctions to command a group to stop doing something, or be held in contempt. The crime of vagrancy is committed by wandering about from place to place without any visible means of support, refusing to work even though able to do so, and living off the charity of others.
Vagrancy laws are much broader than disorderly conduct laws.
Some states use the term loitering rather than vagrancy, which is often defined as being in a place, at a time, and in a manner not usual for law-abiding individuals, and under circumstances that warrant alarm for the safety of persons or property in the vicinity. They also tend to make the status of being poor a crime. According to the equal protection clause of the Constitution, things with the protection of status are not acts that can be criminalized. This is the crime of treating a corpse in any way that would outrage family sensibilities. A belligerent, angry panhandler who follows a person who has refused to give money would be an example of aggressive panhandling.