ABSTRACT
Despite problems with estimating the size of the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller populations in the UK, it is clear that children, young people, and adults are heavily criminalized. For example, David Lammy in his Parliamentary Review of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Representation in the Criminal Justice System found that “Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are often missing from published statistics about children in the CJS, but according to unofficial estimates are substantially overrepresented in youth custody”. This chapter explores racism and discrimination against Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller peoples and more specifically their criminalization and imprisonment in historical and contemporary contexts. It considers the implications for decolonizing approaches to justice.
