ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book was designed to add to the existing body of scientific, empirical, and theoretical work on crime, and criminal justice in the Caribbean. In describing the importance of a post-colonial or counter colonial criminology, Agozino called for a decolonisation of the Establishment Criminology. Agozino emphasised the role of institutionalised racism and its importance for criminological studies both in former colonies as well as former colonizing nations. Agozino's work highlighted the imbalance between the large numbers of criminological studies focusing on offences committed by the poor, and the lack of attention for those white-collar crimes committed by the rich: such as public fraud, corruption, and embezzlement. The gendered notions seem to also impact on gendered risk factors for youth offending and the buffering role of social capital.
