I read an article about the prisons in Romania years ago, which didn’t represent the population at large-—the gypsies were the largest group incarcerated—much larger amount than percentage in the population. The article attributed it to their lack of respect for other people’s personal property. :)
That is the only thing I have really ever read about “gypsies” other than in books, like Hugo’s Esmerelda.
Just do an internet search for: Bimbo gypsy clan, and you can find plenty of reading about modern gypsies in America. They’re not too common, but they are around. We had family of them living down the block from us for a while when I was a kid.
Their children were not allowed to talk with or play with the other neighborhood kids, and they did not go to school. The kids would be out every day, on the corner at the intersection of the busy street, selling candy bars like they were for some school fundraiser. Except, the only fundraiser was for the gypsies; the parents bought the candy wholesale and used the profits from the kids’ labor to pay their living expenses. Nobody in the family held a regular job, they just ran scams and collected welfare.