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The article presents one aspect of the ongoing dissertation project, "The Construction and Practices of 'Wayfaring' during the 19 th and 20 th century" (working title). A general overview of the project is followed by a discussion of the expert discourses on juvenile "waywardness" and "vagrancy" that had been developed at the turn of the century and that influenced the framing of deviant behavior of children and adolescents throughout the 20 th century. The corpus of source material consists mainly of contributions of German-speaking authors in scientific and philanthropic journals, encyclopedias, manuals or other publications. Within this discourse, the "runaway tendency" became a cornerstone of the concept of "waywardness". The paper shows how medical and pedagogic arguments got intertwined and shaped the measures taken up to contain and prevent juvenile "vagrancy".

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