Gangs in the Caribbean : responses of state and society /
For decades, gangs have been emerging across the globe, disrupting citizen security, the rule of law, health and education and local economies. The Caribbean, like many other regions, has a significant gang problem. Unfortunately, however, there has been limited academic attention given to the issue...
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Kingston, Jamaica :
University of the West Indies Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to the gang problem in the Caribbean / Charles M. Katz
- The Emergence and Evolution of Organized Crime in Jamaica: New Challenges to Law Enforcement and Society / Anthony Harriott
- Organized and Disorganized Crime: Gangs, Naciones and Pandillas in the Dominican Republic / Lilian Bobea
- Gangs in Trinidad and Tobago / Randy Seepersad
- Entrepreneurial Experiences of a Jamaican Posse in the South Bronx / Christopher A.D. Charles and Basil Wilson
- Differences in Delinquency, Victimization and Risk, and Protective Factors for Gang and Non-Gang Youth from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States / Charles M. Katz and Andrew M. Fox
- Diagnosing Gang Violence in the Caribbean / Charles M. Katz and Edward R. Maguire
- Violence Reduction as Gang Reduction: Suppression and the Case of the Shower-Presidential Click / Anthony Harriott
- Gang Preventation and Control in Jamaica: Social and the Case of the Spanglers / anthony Harriott
- Faith-Based Interventions for Reducing Gang Violence in the Caribbean: Retlections from a Professor and a Priest / Edward R. Maguire and C. Jason Gordon
- Moving Forward: Responding to Gangs and Organized Crime in the Caribbean / Anthony Harriott.