An Arc of Time Through Crime: Representations of Gypsies and Travellers in Police Killings.
This paper examines newspaper stories reporting on the killings by Gypsy and Traveller offenders of PC Leslie Meehan in 1960 and PC Andrew Harper in 2019. These media representations are used as heuristic devices to explore differing media discourses about this white minority ethnic groupSixty years...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 899 - 916 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2026
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