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The Palgrave Handbook of Caribbean Criminology

The Palgrave Handbook of Caribbean Criminology

Author: Wendell C. Wallace
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783031523809

Published In: August 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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This handbook explores crime, deviance and punishment in the Caribbean with a focus on marginalized perspectives from scholars in the Caribbean. It explores the region's unique cultural context and challenges, particularly the ongoing influence of colonialism. It also covers types of criminal activities and punishment, including contemporary and emerging areas such as cybercrime and white collar crime, as well as discussing victims and victimization, and crime and justice policies. This handbook builds on the growing field of interest in this region to establish a Caribbean Criminology. It speaks to both students and practitioners.

Introduction: Towards a Caribbean Criminology

PART I: Criminology in the Caribbean

1. The state of Criminology in the Caribbean - Dr. Wendell C. Wallace

2. Criminal Law and Human Rights: A paradoxical relationship - Justice Avason QuinlanWilliams and Justice Charmaine Pemberton

3. Corporate, Financial and White Collar Crime in the Cayman Islands/Caribbean - Dr. Kadesha Swearing

4. Gendered Violence and Crime in the Caribbean - Halimah DeShong

5. Then and now: The need for Caribbean criminological theories

PART II. Typologies of Contemporary Criminal Activities and Punishment in Caribbean Jurisdictions

6. Delinquency Among Juveniles in the Caribbean: Trends, Factors and Determinants - Dr. Godfrey St. Bernard

7. Homicides in the Caribbean - Mr. Sheridon M. Hill

8. Exploring crime typologies in Trinidad and Tobago - Dr. Wendell C. Wallace

9. Transnational Organized Crime in the Caribbean - Dr. Camille Gibson

10. Prison Conditions in the Contemporary Caribbean - Dr. Dacia L. Leslie

11. Cybercrime and cybervictimization - Mr. Andre Norton

12. Crimes by and against Tourists in Barbados

13. An Overview of Gangs and Criminal activities in Haiti - Guyma Noel

14. The decriminalization of cannabis offences in the Caribbean: Criminal Justice System and Public Health Implications - Dr. Alana Griffith

15. Impacts of Gangs and Gang violence on Small Island Developing States in the Caribbean - Charles Katz

16. Gangs and Gang Dynamics: Exploring Gangs in Jamaica - Mr. Tarik Weekes

PART III: Victims and Victimization

17. Rethinking School Discipline in the Caribbean: The moveaway from Punishment - Dr. Sherill V.C. MorrisFrancis

18. School Violence: Implications for Teachers and Education in the Caribbean - Dr. Lisa Jaggernauth

19. Caribbean Peoples and the Retention of the Death Penalty - Mr. Sheridon M. Hill

20. The War on Terrorism: Human Rights Issues, Implications, and Recommendations - Dr. Malisa NeptuneFigaro

21. Domestic Violence (DV) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): A Review of Perspectives of DV and IPV among Caribbean Women and Men - Dr. Leah Cleghorn and Miss Keel County

22. Political Crimes, Political Violence and Victimization in Caribbean Contexts - Dr. Peter St. Jean

23. Police Corruption in the Caribbean/Trinidad and Tobago - Mr. Danny Carr

24. The Invisible Victims of Crime: Children of Incarcerated Parents - Dr. Aveka Mano

25. Gender and Crime in Barbados - Dr. KaiAnn Skeete

26. Race, Class and Crime in Guyana - Dr. Mellissa Ifill

27. Human Trafficking as a Crime against Humanity: Patterns, Evolution, and Implications for the Caribbean - Professor Suzette Haughton

PART IV: Slavery and Colonialism as Crimes Against Caribbean Peoples

28. Colonialism in the Caribbean: A Forgotten Crime against Humanity - Dr. Rita Pemberton

29. Outward movement of Caribbean Peoples as tools of Colonial (British) Development - Dr. Ronald Noel

30. The transmission of violence from colonialism to independence and Beyond: Myth or reality for the Caribbean - Dr. Winston Phulgence

31. Reparation for the Crime of Slavery against African/Caribbean Peoples

32. How Colonialism Criminalized Religion (and Culture) in the Caribbean - Dr. Marcia Burrowes

33. The Windrush Generations, 1948 to now: crimmigration of necessity in the sociology of knowledge and law - Dr. Michael Toussaint

PART V: Critiques of Colonialism in Caribbean Criminology

34. Follow Fashion: Britain's continuing influence on the Death Penalty in the Caribbean - Dr. Timothy Affonso

35. Theoretical Criminology: Peacemaking and the Policing of Public Order in Guyana - Dr. Joanne Mars

36. Police and Policing in the Caribbean: Centralization, Pluralization and Caribbeanization

37. Policing Homophobia in the Caribbean: The Colonial Genesis - Dr. Perry Stanislas

38. Language Romanticized: The monopoly of English language usage in the criminal justice system in the bilingual society of St. Lucia - Dr. R. Sandra Evans

39. The intersection of colonialism and indentureship in the Caribbean (or a specific Caribbean country)

Part VI: Crime and Justice Policie

40. Norms in Contention: Human Rights Across Social, Gendered and Religious Conformity and NonConformity - Dr. SueAnn Barratt

41. Reformation of Caribbean Judicial Systems - Master Gillian Scotland

42. Use of ADR Mechanisms in Caribbean Judiciaries - Miss Ann Diaz and Cheri Lewis

43. The State of Data Collection in Caribbean Police Departments - Mrs. Karen LancasterEllis

44. Police Indiscipline: Police Oversight Agencies as Agents of External Police Control - Mr. David West

45. The Police Complaints Process - Dr. Wendell C. Wallace, Mr. Russel Mason and Miss Gisann Ramharack

46. Criminal Activities as threats to National Security in the Caribbean - Dr. Marika Dawkins

47. Venezuelan Migration to the Caribbean in the 21st Century: Policy Implications - Dr. Mauricia John

48. The Criminalization of Homosexuality in St. Kitts and Nevis/Caribbean - Dr. Moyia Rowtham

49. Policy Responses to Criminality: Sexual Predation as a Biproduct of Protracted Curfews - Dr. Herbert S. Gayle 50. Sentencing Practices and Trends in Barbados - Miss Rochelle Lashley

51. Penal reform or penal abolitionism in the Caribbean?

Conclusion: Caribbean Criminology: At the centre or at periphery and for how long?