Gypsy and Traveller Experiences of Crime and Justice Since the 1960s: A Mixed Methods Study
Lead Research Organisation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Department Name: Social Policy
Abstract
Historical accounts show that since the arrival in England and Scotland of Romani Gypsies in the fifteenth century, and of Irish Travellers in the nineteenth century, they have been associated with criminal offending. Since then Gypsies and Travellers (G&Ts) have become entrenched in popular, media and political imaginations as criminal predators, bringing property crime, violence, fraud, tax evasion and anti-social behaviour to settled communities. Yet despite five centuries' of such categorisation, there is surprisingly no rigorous evidence assessing the validity of such claims nor systematic assessments of G&Ts' experiences of victimisation. No existing sources of evidence from self-report offending surveys, archival accounts, oral histories, ethnographic or qualitative research can provide an estimate of G&T patterns of offending. Neither can they tell us about how frequently G&Ts are the victims of non-racially motivated crime (e.g. assault, burglary, theft) or hate crimes. This is particularly concerning given the Global Attitudes Survey found 50% of UK respondents held negative views of G&Ts, over double the proportion holding unfavourable attitudes towards Muslims, who have often been the victims of hate crimes. Estimates of offending, victimisation and hate crime are available for other minority ethnic groups.
This interdisciplinary study will produce the first comprehensive, historicized account of G&T experiences of victimisation, crime and criminal justice in two urban and two rural areas of England. Specifically, it will comprise:
(i) a crime survey involving researchers and G&T interviewers looking at G&T victimisation by personal crime (e.g. assault, hate crime) and crimes against the household/family (e.g. burglary, fraud). It will assess attitudes to, and contact with, the police (including stop and search), courts, probation, and prisons. The survey will also ask questions about G&Ts' use of alcohol/drugs and involvement in property, fraud, and violent offences as offenders. It will survey self-ascribing G&Ts who vary by gender, age and settlement (roadside living, official/private caravan sites, unauthorised encampments, and private/social housing);
(ii) community and prisoner oral histories to investigate whether offending over individual lifetimes is linked to experiences of racism and discrimination, and to explore the effects of actions by the police, courts, probation and prisons on G&T individuals and communities;
(iii) interviews with local professionals who have engaged with G&Ts in a variety of contexts, both operationally and strategically (e.g. police officers, Victim Support, housing officers, councillors, Police and Crime Commissioners). These will seek to find out the ways in which G&Ts and their lifestyles are understood and responded to in formal policies and operationally on the ground, as well as documenting where support services may need to be targeted in criminal justice and other service provision; and
(iv) archival research of governmental and other publically available historical sources, including council committee meeting minutes, county surveys of G&Ts' experience of policing and local petitions against official sites.
Taken together, these methods will provide, for the first time, numerical estimates of both victimisation and offending, whilst also illuminating the meaning attached to them by G&Ts, including the place of perceptions of racism in G&Ts' behaviour and experiences. The study will provide insight into how criminal justice and other statutory agencies have historically dealt with G&Ts compared with the contemporary picture. In this way it will build a sensitive account of G&Ts' experiences of crime as victims as well as offenders which can respond to the negative stereotyping of G&Ts drawing on rigorous evidence. This will inform policy and practice so as to reduce the harms of crime for all those affected, in both G&T and non-G&T communities.
This interdisciplinary study will produce the first comprehensive, historicized account of G&T experiences of victimisation, crime and criminal justice in two urban and two rural areas of England. Specifically, it will comprise:
(i) a crime survey involving researchers and G&T interviewers looking at G&T victimisation by personal crime (e.g. assault, hate crime) and crimes against the household/family (e.g. burglary, fraud). It will assess attitudes to, and contact with, the police (including stop and search), courts, probation, and prisons. The survey will also ask questions about G&Ts' use of alcohol/drugs and involvement in property, fraud, and violent offences as offenders. It will survey self-ascribing G&Ts who vary by gender, age and settlement (roadside living, official/private caravan sites, unauthorised encampments, and private/social housing);
(ii) community and prisoner oral histories to investigate whether offending over individual lifetimes is linked to experiences of racism and discrimination, and to explore the effects of actions by the police, courts, probation and prisons on G&T individuals and communities;
(iii) interviews with local professionals who have engaged with G&Ts in a variety of contexts, both operationally and strategically (e.g. police officers, Victim Support, housing officers, councillors, Police and Crime Commissioners). These will seek to find out the ways in which G&Ts and their lifestyles are understood and responded to in formal policies and operationally on the ground, as well as documenting where support services may need to be targeted in criminal justice and other service provision; and
(iv) archival research of governmental and other publically available historical sources, including council committee meeting minutes, county surveys of G&Ts' experience of policing and local petitions against official sites.
Taken together, these methods will provide, for the first time, numerical estimates of both victimisation and offending, whilst also illuminating the meaning attached to them by G&Ts, including the place of perceptions of racism in G&Ts' behaviour and experiences. The study will provide insight into how criminal justice and other statutory agencies have historically dealt with G&Ts compared with the contemporary picture. In this way it will build a sensitive account of G&Ts' experiences of crime as victims as well as offenders which can respond to the negative stereotyping of G&Ts drawing on rigorous evidence. This will inform policy and practice so as to reduce the harms of crime for all those affected, in both G&T and non-G&T communities.
Planned Impact
The long-term aims of the project are to improve policy-making and daily practice surrounding G&Ts who come into contact with the criminal justice system, both as victims and offenders. In addition, the project is designed to foster greater cross-community understanding and so reduce the isolation and villification of Britain's G&T populations and the negative social consequences associated with such stigmatisation. In order to effect these aims the project team will work with the following stakeholder populations:
a) G&Ts (INCLUDING PRISONERS): At present G&Ts' experiences of crime and victimisation are almost solely shared within G&T communities, and consequently any experiences of victimisation or institutionalised racism, for example, remain hidden from public view. Across its lifetime and beyond, the project's resources are designed to give context, voice and emotion to G&Ts' experiences of crime, as both victims and offenders. Taken together these will provide G&Ts with a body of information which articulates their individual and community experiences and which puts them firmly in the public domain. Here the aim at the broadest level is to build confidence across G&T populations that wider society, the state and statutory agencies understand the relationship between G&Ts' wider life experiences and their experiences of crime and criminal justice. Further, by providing the baseline evidence for the Policy Brief, participating G&Ts have the direct opportunity to voice their concerns and feed into policy development. At the local level, improved training and knowledge of those working with G&Ts on the ground - via the Learning Letters and online resources - will open the way to better working relationships and trust between them and G&T populations, reducing individual and community-level negative experiences with statutory and other agencies.
b) THE WIDER PUBLIC: Most public attitudes towards G&Ts are formed through accessing, very often biased and uninformed, media. The project's freely available, and highly engaging, resources are aimed at looking beyond the G&T communities, to reach the wider population. Here they will act to raise understanding and awareness of, and empathy with, the experiences and treatment of G&Ts, both historically and in the present. This will build knowledge and awareness and so provide a platform for improved cross-community relations.
c) POLICY-MAKERS AND POLITICIANS: At present government policy - whether expressed through the police, court, probation, or prison systems - lacks robust evidence to underpin its approach to G&Ts. The project will engage directly with policymakers through providing robust and clear baseline data from which they, and non-statutory agencies, can design more inclusive policies, develop appropriate staff training, and implement appropriate guidelines for those working with G&Ts within the criminal justice systems. This intervention will open the door to better informed policy decision-making, and in the long-term build trust with G&T populations that their needs and perspectives are taken into account. Further, the workshop at the parliamentary event opens the possibility for closer long-term partnership-working between workshop participants, including the Ministry of Justice's Race & Ethnicity Board.
d) LOCAL THIRD AND PUBLIC SECTOR: Many third sector workers have wide and deep knowledge of the G&T populations with whom they work. However, they often lack the capacity to develop resources and extend their knowledge beyond their particular organisation. The project will provide them with multi-media and text resources to enable best practice within and between agencies, and hence build capacity. Further, the non-expert crime survey offers the possibility for localities to expand their own knowledge base after the project has ended, offering the potential for the development of locally appropriate, evidence-based service and resource provision.
a) G&Ts (INCLUDING PRISONERS): At present G&Ts' experiences of crime and victimisation are almost solely shared within G&T communities, and consequently any experiences of victimisation or institutionalised racism, for example, remain hidden from public view. Across its lifetime and beyond, the project's resources are designed to give context, voice and emotion to G&Ts' experiences of crime, as both victims and offenders. Taken together these will provide G&Ts with a body of information which articulates their individual and community experiences and which puts them firmly in the public domain. Here the aim at the broadest level is to build confidence across G&T populations that wider society, the state and statutory agencies understand the relationship between G&Ts' wider life experiences and their experiences of crime and criminal justice. Further, by providing the baseline evidence for the Policy Brief, participating G&Ts have the direct opportunity to voice their concerns and feed into policy development. At the local level, improved training and knowledge of those working with G&Ts on the ground - via the Learning Letters and online resources - will open the way to better working relationships and trust between them and G&T populations, reducing individual and community-level negative experiences with statutory and other agencies.
b) THE WIDER PUBLIC: Most public attitudes towards G&Ts are formed through accessing, very often biased and uninformed, media. The project's freely available, and highly engaging, resources are aimed at looking beyond the G&T communities, to reach the wider population. Here they will act to raise understanding and awareness of, and empathy with, the experiences and treatment of G&Ts, both historically and in the present. This will build knowledge and awareness and so provide a platform for improved cross-community relations.
c) POLICY-MAKERS AND POLITICIANS: At present government policy - whether expressed through the police, court, probation, or prison systems - lacks robust evidence to underpin its approach to G&Ts. The project will engage directly with policymakers through providing robust and clear baseline data from which they, and non-statutory agencies, can design more inclusive policies, develop appropriate staff training, and implement appropriate guidelines for those working with G&Ts within the criminal justice systems. This intervention will open the door to better informed policy decision-making, and in the long-term build trust with G&T populations that their needs and perspectives are taken into account. Further, the workshop at the parliamentary event opens the possibility for closer long-term partnership-working between workshop participants, including the Ministry of Justice's Race & Ethnicity Board.
d) LOCAL THIRD AND PUBLIC SECTOR: Many third sector workers have wide and deep knowledge of the G&T populations with whom they work. However, they often lack the capacity to develop resources and extend their knowledge beyond their particular organisation. The project will provide them with multi-media and text resources to enable best practice within and between agencies, and hence build capacity. Further, the non-expert crime survey offers the possibility for localities to expand their own knowledge base after the project has ended, offering the potential for the development of locally appropriate, evidence-based service and resource provision.
Publications
Taylor, B
Intermittent Citizens. Scotland's Travellers, Welfare and the Shifting Boundary of State and Voluntary Action in the Early Twentieth-Century
in Journal of British Studies
Taylor B
(2021)
What field? Where? Bringing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History into View
in Cultural and Social History
Taylor B
(2021)
What field? Where? Bringing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History into View
in Cultural and Social History
James Z
(2023)
The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice
James Z
(2020)
Gypsies' and Travellers' lived experience of harm: A critical hate studies perspective
in Theoretical Criminology
James Z
(2022)
Roma, Gypsies, and Travellers As a Community of Difference: Challenging Inclusivity As an Anti-racist Approach
in Critical Romani Studies
Hinks, J.
(2022)
Hampshire's Gypsy rehabilitation centres: welfare and assimilation in mid-twentieth century Britain
in History Workshop Journal
Title | Born on the Edge |
Description | Short film illustrating the violence from members of the general public Romanies/Gypsies and Travellers face while living a mobile lifestyle. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | Romani/Gypsy and Traveller actors and producers reported feeling empowered by their involvement in producing the film. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLzExiONzLc&list=PLo48HyAqJDjO6O3GxmMWwFCwni7RI68wJ&index=2 |
Title | Dark to Dark |
Description | Short film contrasting the casual prejudice experienced by Gypsies/Travellers during everyday economic interactions with a moment in the life of a conscientious father and his daughter. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | Romani/Gypsy and Traveller actors and producers report being empowered by their involvement in producing the film. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu46Pure3wM&list=PLo48HyAqJDjO6O3GxmMWwFCwni7RI68wJ&index=3 |
Title | Let Me Go |
Description | Short film based on collected oral history examining racism experienced by Gypsies and Travellers receiving health care |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | Actors reported being empowered by the experience of creating and acting in the films |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cAhze71T1w&list=PLo48HyAqJDjO6O3GxmMWwFCwni7RI68wJ |
Title | Men in Suits |
Description | Short film explores the reality of life on the roadside and violent eviction in the seemingly cosy setting of a busy coffee shop. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | Romani/Gypsy and Traveller actors and producers reported feeling empowered by their involvement in producing the film. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBfua_hbjs&list=PLo48HyAqJDjO6O3GxmMWwFCwni7RI68wJ&index=6 |
Title | My Daily Task |
Description | Short film features a poem narrated over mixed visuals of all the places and people from the other six films. It seeks to bring together the thematic strands of all the films into a single piece. It should work as a stand-alone short with its own intellectual and emotional impact. However, it should hopefully also work as a closing piece that could be played at the end of the full sequence of films as an 'impact maximiser' - for instance, if some or all of the films have been screened and discussed at a conference or workshop, film seven might be used as a narrative bookend, drawing the themes together and recapping on what they were. 'My Daily Task' explores what it feels like to be the actual person with feelings who is living in a paradigm of strange ethnic judgements. With Damian Le Bas, Jimmy Doherty, Tammy Buckland, John Connors, Heaven-Leigh Clee, Liza Mortimer, Theresa Pine, Faye Freeman. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | Romani/Gypsy and Traveller actors and producers report feeling empowered by their involvement in their production of the film. The whole series of films was the subject of an article, 'Realities Checked - Changing the conversation around Travellers and crime', Travellers Times 5 Feb 2024 - https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2024/02/realities-checked-changing-conversation-around-travellers-and-crime |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uLBybVd_FE&list=PLo48HyAqJDjO6O3GxmMWwFCwni7RI68wJ&index=7 |
Title | No Place to Be: A Graphic HIstory of Gypsies and Travellers in Modern Britain |
Description | 40page freely-accessible/downloadable graphic history drawing drawing together archival and oral history findings to illustrate Gypsies' and Travellers' experiences in the second half of the twentieth century. |
Type Of Art | Artwork |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Currently unknown, |
URL | https://www.realities-checked.org/what-weve-found |
Title | See That Scar |
Description | Short film looks at the reality of domestic abuse against a backdrop of determination to live a healthy life for Gypsies/Travellers |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | Romani/Gypsy and Traveller actors and producers report feeing empowered by their involvement in producing the film. |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFtX0uL7bWE&list=PLo48HyAqJDjO6O3GxmMWwFCwni7RI68wJ&index=5 |
Title | Wipe It Over |
Description | Wipe It Over explores the impact of possible over-sentencing on the young life of a Gypsy/Traveller. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | Gypsy/Traveller actors and producers report being empowered by their part in creating the film |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76wf3nevtpA&list=PLo48HyAqJDjO6O3GxmMWwFCwni7RI68wJ&index=4 |
Description | 1) In the first survey of its kind to examine non-hate related victimisation, among 400 Gypsies and Travellers, 46% had been a victim of crime (property offences, fraud, robbery or violence) in the last year compared with the far lower 16% of the general population. The survey modified the household-based Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) for use in four English regions, and included those living roadside, on sites, and houses. 2) Gypsies and Travellers were also more vulnerable to racially motivated victimisation - whereas the CSEW reported around 1% of Asian and Black people had suffered hate crime, this was 11% for Gypsies and Travellers. Community oral histories showed that hate crime was a common occurrence affecting men and women, all age groups, and many Gypsies and Travellers recalled hate incidents as children and then as parents and grandparents. 3) The archival analysis situated these experiences within the context of legislation and policies, that since the 1960s, have increasingly restricted the mobility of caravan-dwelling Gypsies and Travellers. Over time, the simple presence of Gypsies and Travellers has shifted from them being regarded as a low-level 'nuisance' to being commonly seen as a 'criminal threat'. Professionals working in diverse fields from education to health to criminal justice were found to often resist such narratives, although sometimes they were aligned to them or ambivalent about them. Historical records have documented police and local government support for the harsh treatment of Gypsies and Travellers, informed by deep-seated racist attitudes among settled populations. Negative interactions with the police, both in the past and in the present, explains why 39% of survey participants said that they did not trust the police at all and 39% not very much. This lack of legitimacy is far in excess of Black communities who have similarly had long histories of mistrust of the police. Where Gypsies and Travellers reported crime as victims, they often felt disbelieved by the police. 4) The survey also captured self-reported offending behaviour, for which there has been no data previously. Only a minority of Gypsies and Travellers, 22%, said they had committed a crime in the last year. Most common were property crimes such as vehicle-related theft and shoplifting. The prisoner oral histories pointed to similar reasons for Gypsies and Travellers committing crime as for other ethnic groups. Motivations included - wanting something unaffordable, peer pressure, addictions, thrill-seeking, and on occasion, racist provocation. Sometimes, offenders had suffered abuse or neglect as children. Poor mental health and family bereavements (including by suicide) were a feature of life too for some Gypsies and Travellers. Such adverse childhood experiences are typical contextual factors in offending for all ethnic groups. Feeling racially discriminated against in education and employment, and often having low literacy or qualifications, also played a part in offending. Negative feelings could also extend to court processes when ethnicity was referenced during Gypsies and Travellers' trials or when officers excluded them from opportunities - like home leave - in the prison system. |
Exploitation Route | The research findings provide quantitative evidence to show how rates of crime AGAINST Gypsies and Travellers are far higher than for other groups. It also shows how few Gypsies and Travellers are involved in offending. This is vital information to change the narratives circulating about Gypsies and Travellers which positions them only as offenders. The findings can be put to use by third sector and campaign organisations who advocate for the more respectful treatment of Gypsies and Travellers inside and outside of the criminal justice system. Journalists and media representatives can also commit to more nuanced coverage of these groups based on the study's findings. Such data can also be taken forward by community safety professionals to reduce victimisation levels, and by victim support-related services that seek to ameliorate the harmful impacts of crime. One of the published papers sets out the 'state of the field' and offers pointers for those beginning historical research with this group |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Education Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | https://www.realities-checked.org/ |
Description | Catch 22 Training |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Expert advice on GRT Inclusion for Catch 22 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Catch 22 are delivering a more informed service to their clients and their staff are working in a more inclusive workplace. |
Title | Crime Survey for Gypsies and Travellers |
Description | Compilation of crime victimisation and self-report offending survey with additional questions from the Everyday Discrimination Scale |
Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | None |
Title | Realiteis Checked Study: Crime Survey for use by third sector organisations |
Description | A user-friendly survey has been compiled for use by non-academics to collect data on victimisation |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Realities Checked Study: Crime Victimisation and Offending Survey |
Description | 400 participants - victimisation, offending, perceptions of the criminal justice system, use of security, fear of crime |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Realities checked: Qualitative data |
Description | 27 Prisoner oral histories 40 Community oral histories 54 Interviews with Professionals/Practitioners |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | N/A |
Description | Working with Gypsy and Traveller Third Sector organisations: Friends Families Travellers |
Organisation | Friends, Families and Travellers |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Current criminal justice issues and research possibilities for South-East site |
Collaborator Contribution | Discussion of access possibilities, provision of contacts |
Impact | Meetings in February 21, September 2020, January 2020 |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Working with Gypsy and Traveller Third Sector organisations: LeedsGATE (2020 - Still Active) |
Organisation | Leeds Gypsy and Traveller Exchange (Leeds GATE) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Current criminal justice issues and research possibilities for Leeds area, piloting of crime survey |
Collaborator Contribution | Finding volunteers for crime survey pilot Discussion of access possibilities, provision of contacts |
Impact | Meetings in March 2020, September 2020 |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Working with Gypsy and Traveller Third Sector organisations: TravellerSpace |
Organisation | TravellerSpace |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Current criminal justice issues and research possibilities for Devon and Cornwall |
Collaborator Contribution | Discussion of access possibilities, provision of contacts |
Impact | Phone meetings and email exchanges |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Working with the charity the Historical Association |
Organisation | Historical Association |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Co-I Becky Taylor has been collaborating with the HA to create a series of resources relating to the history of Britain's UK Gypsy and Traveller population, including a podcast and a set of background notes and teaching materials. |
Collaborator Contribution | n/a |
Impact | Schooling teaching resource pack and podcasts. Collaboration with Helen Snelson to include Gypsy and Traveller history into new KS3 textbook: Helen Snelson, Ruth Lingard, Claire Holliss, Susanna Boyd, 'A new focus on...British Social History, c.1920-2000 for KS3 History: Experiences of disability, sexuality, gender and ethnicity' (Hodder, 2023) |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | All Party Parliamentary Group on Gypsies Travellers Roma |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of research findings on victimisation and perceptions of the police |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Briefing to Independent Sexual Violence Advocates on working with GRT communities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Advice and guidance given on policy and briefing provided for staff at Limeculture Independent Sexual Violence Advocates, 05 April 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Embedding GRT in KS3 History |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Engagement with team putting together a new KS3 textbook Susanna Boyd et al, Social History, c.1920-2000. A New Focus on Experiences of Disability, Sexuality, Gender and Ethnicity. KS3 Education (Hodder Education, 2023). Substantive archival material, advice and historical interpretation included in text book as a result. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | GRT: History GCSE textbook changes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Advice given to Pearson Edexcel History over GCSE content - use of correct terminology for Roma and Sinti for Weimar and Nazi Germany option; and providing advice and input on inclusion of Romani Gypsies and Irish Travellers for GCSE Migration module (Dec/Jan 2022/3). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Gypsy Roma Traveller Online Teaching Resources |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Series of online teaching resources produced in collaboration with the Historical Association, supported by a seminar with teachers and a launch at the Historical Association's annual conference (2022) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.history.org.uk/secondary/categories/606/module/8794/do-gypsy-roma-and-traveller-children... |
Description | Gypsy Traveller History in Britain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Historical Association podcast for use with schools |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Gypsy and Traveller Experiences of Crime and Justice Since the 1960s: A neglected minority in criminology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Article highlighting new research to criminological audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.britsoccrim.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/BSCN84-Gypsy-and-Traveller-Experiences-of-Cri... |
Description | Interview - LSE Research Magazine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Description of research study |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/society/crime-and-punishment |
Description | Just About . . . Gypsy, Roma and Traveller People and Criminal Justice |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Panel on race and criminal justice research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | NEW RESEARCH PROJECT EXPLORES THE REALITIES OF LIFE FOR GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Early findings from the archival work examining individual, collective and institutional prejudice targeting Gypsies and Travellers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/features/new-research-project-explores-realities-life-gypsies-and... |
Description | Presentation of The Harms of Hate for Gypsies and Travellers at Anarchist Feminist Bookfair |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of The Harms of Hate for Gypsies and Travellers at the Anarchist Feminist Bookfair, 18 July 2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoJUzXaS7Cw |
Description | Race and Crime Board |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Highest level discussion of issues related to race broadly, and Gypsies and Travellers, specifically. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
Description | Rural Media Village Pub Conversation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview (Phillips, Taylor) as part of programme in response to the Channel 4 Dispatches programme 'The Truth About Traveller Crime') |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Talk for Norwich Labour Party |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I delivered a talk for Norwich Labour Party on the history of Britain's Gypsies and Travellers, their relationship with the Left, with policy developments, and with wider society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Talk for Peterborough Fabian Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I delivered a talk for Norwich Labour Party on the history of Britain's Gypsies and Travellers, their relationship with the Left, with policy developments, and with wider society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Talk for Stamford Anti-Racism Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk to Stamford Anti-Racism Group |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Teaching Race Matters: Romani Gypsies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Podcast as part of the Runnymede Trust's Teaching Race Matters series, exploring the history and pedagogical issues surrounding the presence of Romani Gypsies in early modern Britain. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://rss.com/podcasts/teachingracematters/ |
Description | Watch the crime rate go up over the weekend |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Blog on controversial Channel 4 programme |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |