Glossary

Antisocial was a label imposed on people who were accused of a permanent lack of adaptability and productivity, which was supposedly their own fault and at the same time hereditary. Antisocials included homeless people, welfare recipients, beggars, sex workers, pimps, vagrants and alcoholics. Sinti, Roma and Yeniche people were also systematically persecuted under this racially charged category. Those stigmatised as antisocial were interned in workhouses and concentration camps.