ABSTRACT

Despite high crime rates among men in the Caribbean, rising rates of violence against women in the region, and a significant number of Caribbean nationals incarcerated abroad due to drug smuggling, existing research has yet to offer explanations that are tailored to the unique Caribbean societies and the individuals in them.

This edited volume adds to the existing body of scientific, empirical and theoretical work on crime (victimization), and criminal justice in the Caribbean, with a specific focus on impacts of post-colonialism and gender. To investigate these impacts on a developing Caribbean criminology, the contributions in this volume focus on how impacts of post-colonialism, associated racial stereotypes, and/or gender throughout the Caribbean impact on (a) types of offending, (b) victimization, and (c) criminal justice system responses and policies.

Bringing together a broad range of experts, this book sheds light on key criminological topics in the Caribbean, including victimization, risk factors for offending, subcultures of violence and particularly gendered violence, and the role of motherhood within matrifocal societies. It is essential reading for those engaged with Caribbean - or decolonial - Criminology and those engaged with comparative and international studies in crime and justice more generally.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

section B|110 pages

Crime and victimisation

chapter 3|20 pages

Prevalence of public fraud and corruption in the Dutch Caribbean

Impacts of (post)colonialism explored

chapter 6|16 pages

The language of partner violence in the Caribbean

A decolonial feminist analysis

chapter 7|22 pages

Participatory action research

Identifying and addressing sexual violence in St Lucia

section C|103 pages

Causes and risk factors for offending

chapter 10|24 pages

Constructing crime in Antigua

Perceptions of structural explanations of crime in post-colonial era

chapter 11|15 pages

Psychosis and crime among Caribbean migrants

A social defeat perspective

chapter 12|17 pages

Crime, identity and community

A post-colonial analysis on Kingston, Jamaica

section D|60 pages

Criminal justice systems and policies

chapter 13|18 pages

Perceptions of familial responsibility as a practical constraint in judicial decision-making

Focal concerns and gender bias in sentencing on the island of Barbados

chapter 14|15 pages

Intellectual disability among male prisoners in Bonaire

Translating and validating psychological and intellectual diagnostic tools in the local Creole language

chapter 15|18 pages

Crime control and punishment in Dominica

Perspectives of community leaders and offenders

chapter 16|7 pages

Migrant sex work or sex trafficking? Reflections on “trafficking in women”

A Caribbean post-colonial perspective

chapter |10 pages

Discussion