Crime, Delinquency and Justice: A Caribbean Reader
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Description
Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-715-1
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations
PART I: Caribbean Criminology - Theoretical Directions
Towards a Caribbean Criminology
By Your Theories You Shall Be Known: Some Reflections on Caribbean Criminology
Towards a Caribbean Criminology: Prospects and Problems
Constructing the Crime Problem through the Media: Melodrama in Venezuela, 1950-99
PART II: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND PUBLIC POLICY - The Caribbean Experience
School Violence and Delinquency: The Dynamics of Race, Gender,Class, Age and Parenting in the Caribbean
Thinking Violent Thoughts: Students’ Attitudes to Violence within Secondary Schools in Trinidad and Tobago
Juvenile Delinquency ,Juvenile Justice and Legal Reform: A Case for an Evidence-Based Approach
Juvenile Delinquency inTrinidad and Tobago: Challenges for Social Policy and Caribbean Criminology
PART III: Domestic Violence and the law in the Caribbean
Provocation: The Difficulty Encountered by the Courts and the Defence’s Impact on ‘Battered Woman’s Syndrome’
Innovative Community Approach to Ending Domestic Violence
PART IV: Community policing, policing styles and use of force in the caribbean
A Caribbean Portrait of Crime, Justice and Community Policing
Rough Justice: Political Policing and Colonial Self-Rule in Guyana
Policing Styles in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Jamaican Case
Use of Force by Police in the Caribbean: Towards a Social Psychological Analysis
PART V: Corrections in the Caribbean
Client Rehabilitation or Sanitisation of the Penal Language?: Analysis of Correctional Reforms in Jamaica
Variables Associated With Probation Outcomes in Venezuela
Prison Recidivism in Trinidad and Tobago: A Baseline Study
PART VI: Crime and Development in the Caribbean
Crime and Development in the Caribbean: An Investigation of Traditional Explanatory Models
Paradise Lost? Crime in the Caribbean: A Comparison of Barbados and Jamaica
A Longitudinal Study of Serious Crime in the Caribbean
PART VII: The Jury and the Criminal Justice System in the Caribbean
The Jury on Trial
Pre-Trial Publicity and Juror Prejudice: A Case Study
Ensuring Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Criminal Justice System: (The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba (NAA) and Saint Lucia)
PART VIII: Drug Trafficking and Public Policy in the Caribbean
Conflict and Cooperation in the War on Drugs: The Caribbean Experience
Does Drug Enforcement Reduce Crime?: An Empirical Analysis of the Drug War in Central American and Caribbean Countries
PART IX: Terrorism, Insurrection and Political Violence in the Caribbean
The Politics of Information and the People’s Revolutionary Government: (The 1979 Coup in Grenada and the 1983 US Intervention)
The Psychology of Political and Social Conflict: (The 1990 Muslimeen Insurrection inTrinidad and Tobago)
PART X: Victimisation in the Caribbean
HumanTrafficking and the Dominican Republic: A Victim-Centric Approach
Effects of Ethnicity and Nationality on Driving Attitudes and Perceived Risk of Victimisation
Perceptual Fearand Risk of Victimisation
Contributors
Index
Author Index
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