Caribbean Crime and Criminal Justice (eBook, ePUB)

Impacts of Post-colonialism and Gender
Redaktion: Joosen, Katharina; Bailey, Corin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book contributes to the development of Caribbean Criminology, offers an overview of existing scientific empirical and theoretical work on crime and criminal justice in the Caribbean and explores the impact of post-colonialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315403762
• Artikelnr.: 49273728

Autorenporträt

Katharina J. Joosen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the NSCR, the Netherlands. She has coordinated the project Caribbean Women & Crime on pathways to offending among Dutch Caribbean women for which data has been collected in the Netherlands, Curacao and Aruba. Corin Bailey is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies on the UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He has been working on issues related to crime and violence in the Caribbean for approximately 13 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Corin Bailey
Section A: Historical perspectives. 1. Reframing criminalized resistance strategies of female slaves in the Dutch Caribbean and Suriname during the era of colonialism
Aspha Bijnaar
Karin Lurvink and Katharina J. Joosen
2. Honour
gender
and violence in the Dutch Caribbean and Suriname
Janine Janssen
Section B: Crime and victimization. 3. Prevalence of public fraud and corruption in the Dutch Caribbean: Impacts of (post)colonialism explored
P.C.M. (Nelly) Schotborgh - van de Ven
4. Ethnicity and crime victimization in Trinidad and Tobago
Randy Seepersad and Scot Wortley
5. Child domestic slavery in Haiti
Benedetta Faedi Duramy
6. The language of partner violence in the Caribbean: A decolonial feminist analysis
Halimah A.F. DeShong
7. Participatory action research: Identifying and addressing sexual violence in St. Lucia
Rebecca Hayes
Christina DeJong
Souyenne Dathorne and Velika Lawrence
Section C: Causes and risk factors for offending. 8. The influence of gender on social capital resources and youth problem behaviour outcomes in Trinidad and Tobago
Alvinelle Matthew
9. Trouble in paradise? Pathways to prison among Caribbean women incarcerated in the Netherlands
Katharina J. Joosen
10. Constructing crime in Antigua: Perceptions of structural explanations of crime in post-colonial era
Janeille Z. Matthews
11. Psychosis and crime among Caribbean migrants: A social defeat perspective
David J. Vinkers
12. Crime
identity
and community: A post-colonial analysis on Kingston
Jamaica
Nicola D. Satchell
Section D: Criminal justice systems and policies. 13. Perceptions of familial responsibility as a practical constraint in judicial decision-making: Focal concerns and gender bias in sentencing on the island of Barbados
Corin Bailey
14. Intellectual disability among male prisoners in Bonaire: Translating and validating psychological and intellectual diagnostic tools in the local Creole language
Micha van de Vorst
15. Crime control and punishment in Dominica: Perspectives of community leaders and offenders
Kyra Paul
16. Migrant sex working or sex trafficking? Reflections on "trafficking in women": A Caribbean post-colonial perspective
Joan Phillips
17. Discussion
Katharina J. Joosen