Lexington Books
Pages: 256
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Trim: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
978-1-4985-4929-5 • Hardback • December 2018 • $95.00 • (£65.00)
978-1-4985-4930-1 • eBook • December 2018 • $90.00 • (£60.00)
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.
Part 1: Crime and Violence Trends in the Caribbean
Chapter 1: A Profile of the Caribbean Region: Recent Trends in Crime and Violence by Marika Dawkins
Chapter 2: Causes and Consequences of Crime and Violence: An Overview by Sherill Morris-Francis
Chapter 3: Geospatial Aspects of Crime in Jamaica and Governmental Responses by Jacqueline Rhoden-Trader
Chapter 4: An Analysis of Recent Homicide Trends in Jamaica: A Case study by Camille Gibson and Lorna Grant
Chapter 5: Gangs on the Caribbean by Andy Bain
Chapter 6: Drug Trafficking in the Caribbean: A Jamaican Case Study by Marika Dawkins
Chapter 7: Cases of Murder Suicide among Jamaican Immigrants in the United States by Christopher Charles and Shau-Kim McLean
Part 2: Transnational Crime in the Caribbean
Chapter 8: An Analysis of Money Laundering in the Caribbean by Lorna Grant
Chapter 9: Securing the Financial Sector: Combating Money Laundering in Jamaica by Tameka Samuels-Jones and Taneisha Brown
Part 3: Deportation and Crime
Chapter 10: Deportation and Crime in the Caribbean: An Overview by Sherill Morris-Francis
Chapter 11: The Socio-cultural Nature of Crime and Deportee in the Caribbean by Orville Beckford
This book provides an excellent historical overview of crime and violence in the Caribbean. The contributors identify and present many of the forces that contribute to this phenomenon.
— Zelma Henriques, John Jay College