Editing Irish Travellers (section)

===Violence and crime===
In 1960 a government body was set up to conduct research into the Travelling Community in the Republic of Ireland. The Commission on Itinerancy operated under the auspices of the Department of Justice, the persons were appointed by the Junior Minister [[Charles Haughey]]. One finding was: that "public brawling fuelled by excessive drinking further added to settled people's fear of Travellers". Furthermore "feuding was felt to be the result of a dearth of pastimes and [of] illiteracy, historically comparable to features of rural Irish life before the Famine".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bhreatnach|first=Aoife|title=Becoming conspicuous: Irish travellers, society and the state, 1922–70|publisher=University College Dublin Press|year= 2006|page=108|isbn=978-1-904558-61-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQd1AAAAMAAJ&q=+feuding}}</ref>

A 2011 report, conducted by the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain, ''Voices Unheard: A Study of Irish Travellers in Prison'' (Mac Gabhann, 2011) found that social, economic and educational exclusion were contributing factors to the "increasingly high levels of imprisonment" of Irish Travellers.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mac Gabhann|title=Voices Unheard: Irish Travellers in Prison|url=http://www.irishchaplaincy.org.uk/Publisher/File.aspx?ID=81554|publisher=Irish Chaplaincy in Britain|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901024106/http://www.irishchaplaincy.org.uk/Publisher/File.aspx?ID=81554|archive-date=1 September 2013}}</ref>