About the Authors

• Author: Randy Seepersad/Dianne Williams
• Profession: Criminologist in the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago/Coordinator of the Unit for Social Problems Analysis and Policy Development (USPAP)
• Pages: 189-189

Randy Seepersad, PhD

Randy Seepersad is a criminologist in the Department of Behavioural

Sciences at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad

and Tobago. Dr Seepersad holds a PhD from the University of Toronto

and an MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge. He specializes

in research methodology and statistics and has a research interest in

economic deprivation and crime, gang violence, youth crime and justice,

and penology. Dr Seepersad co-authored the Jamaican National Crime

Victimization Surveys (2006 and 2013), and Beyond Boundaries: A

Comparative Study on Criminal Deportation in Antigua and Barbuda,

Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago (2008). Dr Seepersad

was also co-author of a 13-country CARICOM IMPACS assessment of

forensic science capacity in CARICOM member states (2011) and was

lead consultant for Trinidad and Tobago in the 2012 United Nations

Development Programme’s Caribbean Human Development Report

on Citizen Security. More recently in 2013, along with Professor Ann

Bissessar, Dr Seepersad published a 290-page book entitled Gangs in the

Caribbean.

Dianne Williams, PhD

Dianne Williams is the coordinator of the Unit for Social Problems Analysis

and Policy Development (USPAP), a research unit under the umbrella of

the Department of Behavioural Sciences at The University of the West

Indies St Augustine She is a certiied criminal justice specialist certiied

by the American College of Certiied Forensic Counselors since  in

the Division of Counseling. She is currently a consultant criminologist

for the Ministry of National Security of Belize and one of the Caribbean

criminology experts of record for the Organization of American States.

Current and recently completed projects include authoring the Analysis

of Firearms Legislation for the Caribbean, and providing the expert

opinion on the risks faced by homosexuals in Trinidad and Tobago for

the Refugee and Migrant Justice Service of the United Kingdom.

About the Authors