!!!Randgruppen

Marginalised Groups are social groups who have limited access to 
social structures and facilities because they do not comply with the 
existing social norms and standards. During the period of  Absolutism 
the police had the dual task of disciplining and caring for the 
marginalised (beggars, the disabled, invalid elderly people, retired 
soldiers etc.), i.e. keeping law and order and resocialising them and 
making them economically useful members of society; institutions such 
as workhouses, orphanages, prisons and houses of correction were often 
associated with manufacturing enterprises. Nowadays, marginalised 
groups frequently include the long-term unemployed, elderly people in 
need of care, the disabled, drug addicts and certain groups of foreign 
workers and refugees, all permanently dependent on social benefits. 
During the 18%%sup th/%  century up to 25 % of the population 
were regarded as marginalised, today only 2-5 % of the population 
are rated as such (earnings below officially recognised minimum 
income).

!Literature
H. Stekl, Oe. Zucht- und Arbeitshaeuser 1671-1920, 1978; 
E. Tálos (ed.), Der geforderte Wohlfahrtsstaat, 1992.


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