3rd International Crime and Criminal Justice Conference in the Caribbean

This represents an update on the first draft with only minor chnges anticipated with my name as signature May I use the opportunity to ask if there are any outstanding clarifications you may need to e-mail me through conference3@yahoo.com .

All the best.

Janice Rose-Brown
Conference Programme

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

UWI Mona, Ocho Rios

Jamaica

4:30 – 5:45 p.m. Registration

Venue: Mona Visitor's Lodge

6:00 - 7:30p.m. Opening Ceremony

& Book Launch

Mona Visitor's Lodge

7:30 p.m. Cocktail reception

Thursday, February 12, 2004

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Session 1: Crime & Justice in the

Caribbean : New Research for Policy Development

Venue: Executive Lecture Theatre,

Mona School of Business (MSB)

• Chairman: Professor Ramesh Deosaran

• Ramesh Deosaran - Community Policing in the Caribbean : Fact or Fiction?

• Joel Joseph - Crime and relative deprivation in the Caribbean : A social psychological perspective

• Ian Ramdhanie - Cutting the prison recidivism and crime rates in the Caribbean

• Vidya Lall - An examination of school violence and delinquency in the Caribbean : Towards a healthy school model

Session 2: Human Rights in the Caribbean

Venue: Executive Class Room 2, MSB

• Chairperson: Professor Stephen Vasciannie

• Matthew Johnson - Differences in Custodial Interrogation Practices in the United States and England : Implications for policy in other nations

• Susan Goffe - The devil is in the details: Policing the Police, a Jamaican NGO's experience

• Stephen Vasciannie - Hang Them! Hang Them! Hang Them! Human Rights and the Death Penalty in Jamaica

• Richard Clarke - Human rights and environmental justice: A review of the literature

Session 3: Criminal Deportees

Venue: Executive Class Room 1, MSB

• Chairperson: Professor Bernard Headley

• Dillon Alleyne and Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi - The potential Jamaican impact of criminal deportees from the US

• Marlyn Jones – The Beat Goes On: (Un)intended consequences of recent immigration legislation and judicial decisions?

• Bernard Headley - The U.S.-Jamaica Deportee Problem: Confronting Myths and Reality

• Joan Mars - Immigration and Deportation: Caribbean Aliens and the Criminal Justice Process

10.30 – 11.00 BREAK

11:00 - 12:30 pm

Session 4: Drug Policy

Venue: Executive Lecture Theatre, MSB

• Chairperson: Dr. Horace Bartilow

• Axel Klein - International Pressure, Drug Control and Political Culture A comparison and contrast between the Commonwealth Caribbean and West Africa

• Horace Bartilow & Kihong Eom - Shirkers and Drug Runners: Why US policy fails to induce crackdowns on drug trafficking through transit countries in the Caribbean

• Sean Wheeler - Incarceration fixation: An analysis of criminal justice policy and the war on drugs

• Mark Craig - Narco-Terrorism and the war on drugs

Session 5: Corporate and White Collar Crime

Venue: Executive Class Room 1, MSB

• Chairperson: Dr. Noel Cowell

• Noel M. Cowell - E thics in Business: The propensity of future managers to engage in questionable business decisions

• Shirley Ann Eaton - T he role of professionalism and ethical decision making in the collapse of the financial sector

• Mark Figueroa - Money Laundering in the Caribbean : Has the Case Been Made?

• Claremont Kirton, Renee Marsh and Elaine Gregory - Experiences of Jamaican firms with selected economic crimes: Fraud, forgery and embezzlement

Session 6: Crime and the Media

Venue: Executive Class Room 2, MSB

• Chairperson: Dr. John King

• Ryan T. Mahon - The Digital Scarlet Letter: The Legacy of Coverage of Megan Kanka's

• Marlyn Jones - Analysis of discourses on the role of religion in crime resolution

• John King - An analysis of media reporting on crime and violence in Jamaica

• Audrene Kerr-Brown - The Impact of Parenting Styles and Media on Juvenile Delinquency

12.30 – 2.00 LUNCH

2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Session 7: Social Control and

Immigrant Populations

Venue: Executive Lecture Theatre, MSB

• Chairperson: Professor Barry Spunt

• David Brotherton - The U.S. Export of Social Problems: Strategies and Contexts in the Life Course Development of Dominican Deportees

• Jock Young - To These Wet and Windy Shores : Crime , Disorder and recent immigration policy in the UK

• Jayne Mooney – Social exclusion and the criminal justice system: Minority Communities and Stop and Search in North London

Session 8: What Works: Interventions

Venue: Executive Class Room 2, MSB

• Chairperson: Mr. Horace Levy

• Horace Levy - Inner city reprisal homicides: Case study of a fresh approach

• Norman Kerr - Ceasefire Chicago : A Public Health Approach to reducing Violent Crimes

• Gemma Harper - Tackling the criminogenic needs of offenders: A review of what work

• Helen Taylor Greene and Vernetta Young - Preventing juvenile delinquency: Successful strategies and interventions

Session 9: Community Policing

Venue: Executive Class Room 1, MSB

• Chairperson: Dr. Peter St. Jean

• Peter St. Jean - Legal cynicism and the prospects for community policing as a response to serious crimes in the Caribbean: Lessons from Dominica

• Audrene Kerr-Brown - The viability of implementing community policing in a Jamaican inner-city community

• Jonathan Dalby - Crime, the Police, and the People in Nineteenth-Century Jamaica

• Niels Uildrik - Policing problems in post-communist societies; some lessons for policing in Jamaica

3.15 – 3.30 BREAK

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Session 10: Corrections

Venue: Executive Class Room 2, MSB

• Chairperson: Professor Brian Meeks

• Tres-Ann Cooke - Theorising female drug mules and their incarceration

• Nicole Smith - M otherhood and incarceration: A study of the role performance of a group of British Nationals in the Fort Augusta Women's Prison in Jamaica

• Tahir Abbas - Ethnicity and the courts: Research on the needs of a multicultural society, 1997-2003

• William S. Lofquist - Raising the black flag: A history of the Death Penalty in the Bahamas

Session 11: Crime and Criminal Justice Issues Around the Caribbean I

Venue: Executive Lecture Theatre

• Chairperson: Dr. Farley Brathwaite

• Andrew Hicks - Violent crimes and police performance in Guyana

• Farley Brathwaite - The Impact of homicide on the surviving relatives of homicide victims in Barbados

• William Skeete - The narcotic trade in Guyana : Causes and consequences

• Peter St. Jean - Crime and the Dominican Economy: A Complex relationshi p

Session 12: What Works: Policy

Venue: Executive Class Room 1, MSB

• Chairperson: Dr. Elizabeth Ward

• Elizabeth Ward - Injury Epidemiology a guide for intervention and policy formulation

• Philip D. Osei - A C rime prevention strategy ‘Fit for Purpose': A post-mortem of Jamaica 's 12-point plan of 2002

• James Levine - The impact of transformative leadership on criminal justice reform: The case of change in the New York State Jury System

• Jeffrey Brathwaite QPM (Chief Superintendent) - Independent Advisory Groups: A Case Study in Active Community Participation in the Policing Sector

Friday, February 13, 2004

9:00 - 10:30

Session 13: Children and Youth in Crime

Venue: Executive Class Room 2, MSB

• Chairperson: Dr. Marlyn Jones

• Claudette Crawford-Brown - Children in the Cross-fire: An Examination of the Impact of Violence on Children in the Caribbean (Case Study of Jamaica & Trinidad)

• David Dodd - Delinquency and Style: A Sociology of the Emotions

• Nelseta Walters* , Traqina Quarles and Camille Gibson - Towards preventing the sexual abuse of juveniles in Jamaica

• Armstrong Alexis - Youth crime and public security in the Caribbean

Session 14: Crime and Criminal Justice Issues Around the Caribbean II

Venue: Executive Class Room 1, MSB

• Chairperson: Dr. Jimmy Tindigarukayo

• Rivke Jaffe - Fragmented cities: Violent crime and intra-community versus urban cohesion in Curaçao and Jamaica

• Yaneek Lawson - Extortion in the residential construction sub-sector of Jamaica 's main urban centre

• Jimmy K. Tindigarukayo - An integrated model for tackling violence in Jamaica

• Christopher Charles - Political identity and criminal violence in Jamaica : The case of August Town

Session 15: Collective and Individual Space

Venue: Seminar Room 2 (MSB)

• Chairperson: Dr. Chitra Raghavan

• Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh - The Private becomes Public and the Public becomes Private: The Expansion of the field. Human Rights and its Discontents

• José Luis Morín - The Impact of U.S. Drug Policies on the Caribbean and Latin America

• Chitra Raghavan - The Influence of Public Life on Private: A study of crime, drugs and domestic violence

• C.Jama Adams - Hope and despair: Fathering in constrained places

10.30 – 10.45 BREAK

10:45 - 12:15 p.m

Session 16: Gender and Crime

Venue: Executive Class Room 2, MSB

• Chairperson: Dr. Aldrie Henry-Lee

• Kaylene Richards-Ekeh - Caribbean women, domestic violence in the caribbean and the legal response

• Godfrey St. Bernard - Aspects of Gender and Patterns of Criminal Homicide in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago

• Aldrie Henry-Lee - Children of Convicted Drug Mules: Do they have rights too?

• Christina Pratt & Annette Bonets - Caribbean Families and the state: Race, Class and Gender Research

Session 17: Crime and Policing

Venue: Executive Class Room 1, MSB

• Chairperson: Professor Richard Bennett

• Richard R. Bennett - Governmental legitimacy and policing styles: The effect of corruption on citizen/police behaviour in post-colonial societies

• Ben Bowling - Crime and policing in the Black Atlantic

• Harold Crooks - Our Police Problem and the Problems of our Police: Architecture, Culture and Organization Perspectives on the JCF

• Maureen Cain - In-House Security in Trinidad and Tobago : Powerful Elite or Endangered Species?

Session 18: Peace Management Initiative

Venue: Seminar Room 2 (MSB)

• Chairperson – Professor Basil Wilson

• Maria Volpe and Donna Parchment - Mediation and the criminal justice system: Promises and challenges

12.20 – 1.50

Session 19: Crime & the State

Venue: Executive Class Room 1, MSB

• Chairperson: Professor Micheal Norris

• Michael Norris - A synthesis of Black's stratification and morphology: When the Jamaican Police kill marginalised citizens

• Charles Green - Crime, Powerlessness, and the State in the Contemporary Caribbean

• Horace A. Bartilow & Kihong Eom - Busting Drugs While Paying With Crime: The Transnationalization of the Failure of America's International Drug Policy

• Obika Gray – Uncivil politics: The future of a tradition

Session 20: Caribbean Potpourri

Venue: Executive Class Room 2

• Chairperson: Ms. Dianne McIntosh

• Dianne McIntosh – Soft Boys to Bad Men: Expressions of masculinity among boys in locales of drugs, crime and violence.

• Jacqueline Bergdahl & Michael R. Norris - Risk-taking and Driving Behaviour

3:00 Registered Participants depart for Ocho Rios

The buses may be boarded at the Faculty of Social Sciences car park.

Saturday , February 14, 2004

Renaissance Jamaica Grande

Session 21: Tourism and Crime

9.00 – 10.30

• Chairperson: Dr. Ian Boxill

• Anslem Richards - T ourism Development and crime: Tobago 1996-2002

• Terry Roswell - Looking To Mek A Dollar: Hustling Within Barbados ' Informal Tourist Economy

• Ian Boxill and Hugh Gladwin - A spatial analysis of crime in Montego Bay and Ocho Rios: some exploratory issues

10:30 – 10:45 BREAK

Session 22: Race, Immigration and Crime