It could be more prevalent than the settled community because Irish Travellers don’t think that a husband can rape his wife.You only need to look at your first link to read that a massive majority of these cases (10 in 12 years) are actually domestic incidents (involving husband, wife or partner) and nearly all involve former officers.
Perhaps we should be looking at domestic violence in general as there is a massive problem there and it exists in all walks of life.
I'm sure we could Google "offences by ********" (insert profession/social group/race here) and get loads of hits depending on what bias or agenda we want to get across.
For example, have you ever Googled "rape in the travelling community"? I haven't but if I wanted to make a point, I probably could.
Just over twenty years ago, following the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the failure to convict his racist murderers, the police were found to be institutionally racist.
Earlier this year the independent enquiry into the Daniel Morgan murder investigation found the police to be institutionally corrupt.
Do we now need an investigation to find that the police are institutionally mysognistic?
You can't have failed, in the last couple of days, to hear about the trial and conviction of the man who raped and murdered Sarah Everard. He was a police officer. He is believed to have used his police warrant card to trick his victim into trusting him. He'd been previously investigated for indecent exposure and it has been reported that some of his colleagues referred to him as, 'the rapist'.
The police know that they cannot dismiss this horrific and sickening murder as being simply the case of 'one rotten apple'.
Agree with the first paragraph, not with the last sentence. UK society is and will get more sexist racist and homophobic as other cultures / religions increase in the UK. You only need to see how much worse life is for minorities and women in other countries, to see what this country will be like in another 50 yearsSociety is institutionally sexist/racist/homophobic etc, although considerably less so than when I was a teenager 50 years ago.
Progress is being made, albeit slow.
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It could be more prevalent than the settled community because Irish Travellers don’t think that a husband can rape his wife.
They live by archaic codes.
There is though the Romany tradition of 'Grabbing', which may be a familiar courtship ritual but to the casual observer appears to be a sexual assault openly taking place in public.
It is indecent assault, grabbing a girl and kissing her without her consent. It doesn't actually seem to happen though from what I just read, it was just on the Big Fat Gypsy Wedding programme.
There are plenty of articles though on how appallingly (by our Western standards) travellers treat women and girls