Caribbean Crime
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Cost of crime
Deportations and Crime
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Financial crime in the Caribbean
Gangs in the Caribbean
Geospatial Analysis
Homicide Trends
Illegal Drugs
Jamaica Crime Plan
Murder suicide
Transnational Crime in the Caribbean
Product details
- ISBN 9781498549295
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 156 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Sherill V. C. Morris-Francis is assistant professor and graduate coordinator in the Department of Criminal Justice at Mississippi Valley State University.
Camille Gibsonis Interim Dean of Juvenile Justice & Psychology and Executive Director of the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center at Prairie View A&M University in Texas.
Lorna Elaine Grant is associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at North Carolina Central University.
