Crime and Violence in Trinidad and Tobago: IDB Series on Crime and Violence in the Caribbean

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work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the IDB and for any non-commercial purpose. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license.Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license. 2 AbstractThis report is part of an IDB Technical Note series on crime and violence in the Caribbean. The overall aim is to establish a baseline of the crime prevention arena against which progress can be assessed. The report compiles the available data from multiple sources in order to provide a diagnosis of the size, characteristics, and changing nature of the problem in Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, the report provides a survey of the various crime prevention and suppression policies, programmes, and projects adopted by government, private and non-governmental organisations in recent years. In performing the abovementioned tasks, the report offers an assessment of the data collection, analysis, and crime response capabilities in Trinidad and Tobago, and makes suggestions about the most effective way forward.

Restoring paradise in the Caribbean: combatting violence with numbers

“…Source: Serrbanescu, Ruiz, and Suchdev (2010). 7 The study involved seven countries from the Caribbean, including Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.…”

“…10 Seventy-one percent of rural parents and 55 percent of urban parents reported flogging as the most frequent response to perceived misbehaviour in their children. 11 Even though administrative data on assault and sexual violence are not comparable between countries, data on these crimes are available in several IDB publications (Bailey 2016;Harriott and Jones 2016;Seepersad 2016;Sutton 2016). 12 Accurately determining the cause of death is still a challenge in many countries that may have scarce time and resources to conduct crime scene investigations and autopsies.…”

‘Who ent dead, badly wounded’: The everyday life of pretty and grotesque bodies in urban Trinidad

“…Over the same period, and particularly the last 15–20 years, as changing socio-economic circumstances have come to be reflected in the economics of pretty mas and, specifically, the all-inclusive mas band experience, there have also been increases in violent crime locally (Seepersad 2016).…”

Crime Watch: Hurricanes and Illegal Activities

“…That is, Jamaica has long struggled with high levels of crime and was the first Caribbean country to experience rising crime rates, especially in the 1990s (Jaitman et al, 2017). Although recent trends in Jamaica for violent crimes have been trending downward, they are still seen as being high relative to the rest of the world (Harriott and Jones 2016;Jaitman et al, 2017;Seepersad 2016). 1 At the same time, the island is also subject to many natural disasters, most notably hurricanes.…”