Counter-Cultural Groups in the Age of Covid: Ravers, Travellers and Legal Regulation

Ashford, Chris and O'Brien, Mark (2022) Counter-Cultural Groups in the Age of Covid: Ravers, Travellers and Legal Regulation. The Journal of Criminal Law, 86 (4). pp. 241-255. ISSN 0022-0183

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Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic once again brought into sharpened focus the contested relationships of marginalised groups in the criminal law sphere, and the liminal (re-)regulation of space. Over the course of the last four decades, the law has borne witness to an episodic yet regular intertwining of the fortunes of arguably two elements of Britain’s counterculture: ravers and travellers, specifically ‘new age’ travellers. The two groupings of peoples have had a long, complex and often uncomfortable and fractious relationship both with English law, and also its enforcement agencies. This is perhaps particularly evident in the criminal law provisions and sometimes questionable enforcement of the Public Order Act 1986 and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, through to the social and environmental provisions of the Caravan Sites Act 1968, Entertainments (Increased Penalties) Act 1990, and subsequent provisions.

Both the groupings of ravers and travellers have been faced with a series of legislative and administrative measures that, directly or indirectly, curtail or otherwise restrict their choices as to activities, lifestyles and behaviours. The article analyses how the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to some long-established legal and regulatory themes being once again played out in relation to these two counter-cultural groups.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: raves, travellers, COVID-19, counter-culture, liminality
Subjects: M200 Law by Topic
Department: Faculties > Business and Law > Northumbria Law School
Depositing User: John Coen
Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2022 12:00
Last Modified: 22 Aug 2022 11:30
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/48368

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