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Title Understanding crime in Jamaica : new challenges for public policy / edited by Anthony Harriott
Published Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 239 pages) : illustrations
Contents The Jamaican crime problem : new developments and new challenges for public policy / Anthony Harriott -- Badness-honour / Obika Gray -- The historical roots of violence in Jamaica : the Hearne Report 1949 / Amanda Sives -- Garrison politics and criminality in Jamaica : does the 1997 election represent a turning point? / Mark Figueroa and Amanda Sives -- Social identities and the escalation of homicidal violence in Jamaica / Anthony Harriott -- From the footnotes and into the text : victimization of Jamaica women / Marlyn J. Jones -- the impact of crime on tourist arrivals in Jamaica : a transfer function analysis / Dillon Alleyne and Ian Boxill -- Perceptions of crime and safety among tourists visiting the Caribbean / John W. King -- Tourist harassment : review and survey results / Jerome L. McElroy -- Crime and public policy in Jamaica / Don Robotham
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Crime -- Jamaica
Crime prevention -- Jamaica
Crime -- Political aspects -- Jamaica
Crime -- Economic aspects -- Jamaica
Women -- Crimes against -- Jamaica
Tourists -- Crimes against -- Jamaica
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime
Crime -- Economic aspects
Crime -- Political aspects
Crime prevention
Tourists -- Crimes against
Women -- Crimes against
Jamaica
Form Electronic book
Author Harriott, Anthony.
ISBN 9781435627932
1435627938
9789766401443
9766401446