Index

• 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: 191-195

‘American dream’, 109

abusive partners, 37, 48

abusive relationship, 36, 37, 38

acquittals, 9

adolescent limited, 66, 67

African descent, 20, 27–30, 37, 42, 76,

95, 115, 116, 122, 126, 145, 161

agent of crime control, 2

alienation, 132–35

altruistic actions, 112

antagonistic, 92, 125

Anti Gang Bill (2010), 163, 164

Anti-Gang Act (2011), 101

apathetic, 92

Archie, Ivor, 8

arrest, 1, 3, 18, 40, 45, 46, 48, 49, 77,

78

Association of Caribbean

Commissioners of Police, 4

attempted suicide, 36, 68, 69, 160

backlog of cases, 8, 11, 102

Beetham, 114, 166, 171

bullying, 59–61, 132, 134, 135

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights

and Labour, 3

Carrera Convict Island Prison. See

Carrera Convict Prison

Carrera Convict Prison, 11, 12

Caucasian, 20

Chadee, Derek, 61, 159

Chicago Cease Fire model, 97

Chinese, 20

Cid, José, 15

citizen participation, 152

citizen security, 18, 19, 53, 139, 140,

142, 144, 146, 147, 152, 154, 169

Citizen Security Programme, 86, 97,

167, 168, 171

Cohen, Lawrence, 111

collateral effects, 140

Commissioner of Police, 6, 7

Commissioner of Prisons, 11

community cohesion, 96, 109, 121–

29, 151, 165, 166

community initiatives, 152

community policing. See community

oriented policing

Community Policing Unit, 49

Community Safety and Enhancement

Programme, 167, 170, 171

community service, 11, 159

community-based organizations, 170

community-oriented policing, 4, 5

conidence       

148, 152, 155, 156, 168, 169

conviction rates, 3

corrupt, 3, 148, 149

counselling, 11, 68, 123, 156, 160

counter-normative behaviours, 166

courthouses, 1

crime, 2–4, 7, 8, 13, 17–19, 24–28,

30–32, 44, 45, 47, 52, 53, 56, 57,

64, 65, 71, 73–75, 77–79, 86, 88,

90, 92, 94, 101, 102–108, 110–

16, 120–23, 126–31, 136–52,

154–57, 160, 163–72, 174, 176

assault and battery, 45

breaking and entering, 45

break-ins. See burglaries

burglaries, 3, 24, 25, 32, 62, 101,

137, 149

crime rate, 2, 3, 25, 86, 105, 108,

112, 113, 140, 148, 165

delinquent acts, 54, 55

drug traficking   

inancial crimes 

istight 

fraud, 32, 45, 86, 130, 137, 149,

174, 176

harassment, 45

homicides, 3, 88, 102, 167, 169

illegal drugs, 36, 54, 78, 86, 95,

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