Crime and Violence in the Caribbean

Sherill V. C. Morris-Francis; Camille A. Gibson; Lorna E. Grant

doi:10.5771/9781498549301

Summary

This volume provides an overview of the Caribbean countries, its colonial history, causes, costs and consequences of crime and violence in the Caribbean. The contributors pull from primary research and the available data from multiple sources including national and country specific reports to assess the magnitude, characteristics, and the changing nature of crimes in various Caribbean countries. Discussion is offered on the following crime issue: gender-based violence, homicides, drugs, gangs, money laundering, murder suicided, deportation and the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) to fight crime. In addition, the book provides a discussion of the crime prevention capabilities of selected countries looking at the nature of the crime problem, offers an assessment of the crime prevention capabilities and makes suggestions for policy development.

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Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-4929-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-4930-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 236
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures and Tables No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. An Overview of the Caribbean No access
2. Crime and Violence: Patterns and Trends No access
3. Criminal Justice Systems No access
4. Challenges and Solutions No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Causes and Determinants of Crime and Violence No access
2. Cost and Consequences of Violence No access
3. Estimates of Costs of Crime and Violence No access
4. Crime Victimization in Jamaica No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Recommendations No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Geographic Information Systems No access
2. GIS Usage in Jamaica No access
3. Homicide Problem in Jamaica No access
4. Lottery Scam No access
5. Social Structural Impacts on Homicide Rates in Jamaica No access
6. Garrison Communities No access
7. Governmental Response No access
8. Recommendations and Policy Implications No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. Homicide in Post-independent Jamaica, 1962 to the 1970s No access
2. The 1980s to 1990 No access
3. From 1990 to 2000 No access
4. The 2000s Era No access
5. Scamming-Related Violence No access
6. Domestic Violence and Guns No access
7. Understanding the Homicide Trends No access
8. Changing the Direction of the Homicide Rate No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. The Islands, the Crime, and their Gangs No access
2. Gang Theory and Life in the Caribbean No access
3. A Crime Control Model and Rational Choice No access
4. Society’s Role and Circumstance No access
5. Attachment between the Individual and the Society No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Recommendation No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Background: Drug Trafficking No access
2. Jamaica: A Case Study No access
3. Informal Economies and Crime No access
4. Drug Trafficking and Control No access
5. Control Measures No access
6. Legalization No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Recommendations No access
9. References No access
1. Murder-Suicide No access
2. Murder-Suicide in the Caribbean No access
3. The Immigrant Experience No access
4. Acculturation No access
5. Method No access
6. The Cases No access
7. Discussion No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Recommendations No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. Defining Money Laundering No access
2. Money Laundering in the Caribbean No access
3. Legislative Framework to Combat Money Laundering No access
4. Caribbean Citizens Knowledge about Money Laundering No access
5. The Process of Money Laundering within Banking No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Recommendations No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Financial Crime and the Caribbean No access
2. Money Laundering Control in Jamaica: Overview No access
3. The Anti-Money Laundering Regime No access
4. The Legislative Framework No access
5. Regulated NDFIs and AML Control under POCA No access
6. The Role of the Asset Recovery Agency No access
7. Recommendations No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Migration Trends in the Caribbean No access
2. Caribbean Nationals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom No access
3. U.S. Immigration Laws and Deportation No access
4. Canadian Immigration Laws and Deportations No access
5. British Immigration Laws and Deportations No access
6. Estimating the Effect of Criminal Deportation on Caribbean Countries No access
7. Deportation and Crime No access
8. Conclusions No access
9. Recommendations and Policy Implications No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. The Need for a Sociocultural Analysis of Deportation and Crime No access
2. The Failure of a World System Approach to Crime in the Caribbean No access
3. Recommendations No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 221 - 230
About the Editors No access Pages 231 - 232
About the Contributors No access Pages 233 - 236