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South - South Crime Prevention Project
Project Co-ordinator, Southern Africa
Dr Elrena van der Spuy
Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
Cape Town
Tel.: +27 21 650 2988
Fax: +27 21 650 3790
Email: Elrena.VanDerSpuy@uct.ac.za
Project Co-ordinator, Caribbean
Professor Anthony Harriott
Head, Department of Government
University of West Indies
Mona Campus,
Kingston, Jamaica
Tel. + (876) 512 3357
Fax + (876) 927 0997
Email: anthonydharriott@yahoo.com
Southern Africa

 

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Caribbean

Literature of the Caribbean

Some recent publications from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice on crime, criminal justice, school violence and delinquency, community safety etc being widely used throughout the Caribbean region, in their undergraduate and graduate degrees in criminology and criminal justice and in the social sciences generally.

Deosaran, R., Ramdhanie, I.K. & Ditton, J. (Eds.) (2006)
New Challenges in Crime and Justice: From Research to Policy. (380pp). Trinidad: The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. Proceedings from the 4 th International Conference on Crime and Justice in the Caribbean held February 8-11 2006 at the UWI, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago .

Deosaran, R. (Ed.) (2007)
Crime, Delinquency and Justice: A Caribbean Reader. (720pp). Jamaica : Ian Randle Publishers. The first criminology text book on Caribbean Criminology, this book contains many papers on a wide variety of topics including Caribbean criminological theorizing, juvenile delinquency, terrorism, domestic violence, the jury, policing, corrections, drug trafficking, etc. This text is designed for use by university and secondary school students as well as those persons with an interest in crime, criminal justice and policy making.

Ramdhanie, I. & Lall, V. (Eds.) (2005)
The Deosaran Files: Two Decades of Social and Political Commentary (Volume 1 - Crime, Justice and Society). (Preface by Rolston Nelson, Former Justice of Appeal). Trinidad: The University of the West Indies , School of Continuing Studies. Deals with contemporary issues of crime and justice in Trinidad and Tobago and in the region.

Ramdhanie, I. & Lall, V. (Eds.) (2005)
The Deosaran Files: Two Decades of Social and Political Commentary (Volume 2 - Race, Politics and Democracy). (Preface by John LaGuerre, Professor Emeritus, Political Sciences, UWI). Trinidad: The University of the West Indies , School of Continuing Studies. Focuses on constitutional reform, political succession in parties, democracy, effective governance, race and politics.

Ramdhanie, I. & Lall, V. (Eds.) (2005)
The Deosaran Files: Two Decades of Social and Political Commentary (Volume 3 - Education, Youth and Society). (Preface by Professor Bridget Brereton, Professor of History, UWI). Trinidad: The University of the West Indies , School of Continuing Studies. Deals with contemporary issues facing our youth, school violence and delinquency and educational reform.

Best Practice Projects

Our Project focuses on crime prevention activities that fall within the following themes:

Community Policing:
- Southern Africa
- Caribbean
 
Violence Prevention:
- Southern Africa
- Caribbean
 
Conflict Resolution/Culture of Legality:
- Southern Africa
- Caribbean
 
Offender Reintegration:
- Southern Africa
- Caribbean

Click on a theme to view examples of independently reviewed/evaluated best practice projects from Southern African and the Caribbean.

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