Crime and Violence in the Caribbean : Lessons from Jamaica.

Cover -- Crime and Violence in the Caribbean -- Crime and Violence in the Caribbean: Lessons from Jamaica -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- A Profile of the Caribbean Region -- An Overview of the Caribbean -- Crime and Violence: Patterns and Trends -- Criminal Justice Systems -- Challenges and Solutions -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- Causes, Consequences, and Cost of Crime and Violence in the Caribbean -- Causes and Determinants of Crime and Violence -- Cost and Consequences of Violence -- Estimates of Costs of Crime and Violence -- Crime Victimization in Jamaica -- Conclusion -- Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- Geospatial Aspects of Crime in Jamaica and Governmental Responses -- Geographic Information Systems -- GIS Usage in Jamaica -- Homicide Problem in Jamaica -- Lottery Scam -- Social Structural Impacts on Homicide Rates in Jamaica -- Garrison Communities -- Governmental Response -- Recommendations and Policy Implications -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- An Analysis of Recent Homicide Trends in Jamaica -- Homicide in Post-independent Jamaica, 1962 to the 1970s -- The 1980s to 1990 -- From 1990 to 2000 -- The 2000s Era -- Scamming-Related Violence -- Domestic Violence and Guns -- Understanding the Homicide Trends -- Changing the Direction of the Homicide Rate -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- Gangs in the Caribbean -- The Islands, the Crime, and their Gangs -- Gang Theory and Life in the Caribbean -- A Crime Control Model and Rational Choice -- Society's Role and Circumstance -- Attachment between the Individual and the Society -- Conclusion -- Recommendation -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- Drug Trafficking in the Caribbean -- Background: Drug Trafficking -- Jamaica: A Case Study -- Informal Economies and Crime.

Drug Trafficking and Control -- Control Measures -- Legalization -- Conclusion -- Recommendations -- References -- Chapter 7 -- Cases of Murder-Suicide among Jamaican Immigrants in the United States -- Murder-Suicide -- Murder-Suicide in the Caribbean -- The Immigrant Experience -- Acculturation -- Method -- The Cases -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 -- An Analysis of Money Laundering in the Caribbean -- Defining Money Laundering -- Money Laundering in the Caribbean -- Legislative Framework to Combat Money Laundering -- Caribbean Citizens Knowledge about Money Laundering -- The Process of Money Laundering within Banking -- Conclusion -- Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 -- Securing the Financial Sector -- Financial Crime and the Caribbean -- Money Laundering Control in Jamaica: Overview -- The Anti-Money Laundering Regime -- The Legislative Framework -- Regulated NDFIs and AML Control under POCA -- The Role of the Asset Recovery Agency -- Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 -- The Deportation of Caribbean Nationals and Crime -- Migration Trends in the Caribbean -- Caribbean Nationals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom -- U.S. Immigration Laws and Deportation -- Canadian Immigration Laws and Deportations -- British Immigration Laws and Deportations -- Estimating the Effect of Criminal Deportation on Caribbean Countries -- Deportation and Crime -- Conclusions -- Recommendations and Policy Implications -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 -- The Sociocultural Nature of Crime and Violence in the Caribbean -- The Need for a Sociocultural Analysis of Deportation and Crime -- The Failure of a World System Approach to Crime in the Caribbean -- Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.

This book discusses the recent crime and violence trends in the Caribbean highlighting its history and current challenges that continue to impede its development. Theoretical explanations are offered for the existing conditions and discussion of the need of a paradigm shift in policy development to combat the crime problem.

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