Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations

Cheon, Hyunjung

doi:10.24043/isj.407

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“…It is in this context, that issues such as the changing roles of the police in Fijian islands and the public's perception of police performance during a national crisis is presented. Perceptions of the police are further explored in the article by Cheon, Freemon, and Katz (2023) as they examine legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and youth delinquency in three Small Island Developing Caribbean nations.…”

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Policing and justice in island communities

Wallace¹,

Neptune-Figaro²

2023

ISJ

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Research focusing on policing and the justice systems from an island perspective is available, but extremely rare. Additionally, available research on policing and justice systems in island contexts is usually conducted by non-island scholars using a limited frame of reference on ‘islandness’. Instructively, conventional wisdom suggest that it is academically imprecise and improper to universalise scholarship from countries with large land masses onto islands with unique topographies and challenges. This thematic section, highlights the inherent qualities of policing and justice systems in island communities by way of engagement with the existing body of island and ocean studies literature as well as by way of theoretically informed and methodologically appropriate research conducted by a judicial mix of early, mid- and established career scholars. The authors of the article in this thematic section present their scholarly efforts from diverse perspectives and contributes to decolonization efforts in island studies. Ultimately, the articles advance the call for a move away from colonial epistemology and hegemony in knowledge production and transference to situating island scholars and scholarship within island studies. In sum, this thematic section contributes to the emergent body of literature on both policing and the justice systems and studies on island communities.

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Policing and justice in island communities

Wallace¹,

Neptune-Figaro²

2023

ISJ

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“…Research documents broadly moderate to strong support for the relationship between social learning and delinquency (Pratt et al, 2010). Prior work supports that these theoretical concepts are associated with delinquency in the region (Cheon et al, 2022); however, their association with incarceration has not been explored.…”

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Differences Between Incarcerated and Nonincarcerated Youth in the English-Speaking Caribbean

Freemon

Cheon

Katz

et al. 2022

International Criminal Justice Review

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Incarcerated youth across the English-speaking Caribbean engage in high levels of offending before their detention. However, we know little about whether youth detained in juvenile justice systems in the region are those with the highest offending levels. As in nations beyond the region, some groups of youth in the Caribbean may be disproportionately overrepresented in the system despite their offending levels, such as by race or gender. Using samples of secondary school students and incarcerated youth, the present study examines: (1) do incarcerated youth self-report engaging in more delinquency prior to being detained than those not incarcerated and (2) are there demographic or risk/protective factors differences between incarcerated and nonincarcerated youth? We find that, compared to nonincarcerated youth, incarcerated youth self-report higher levels of delinquency, in general, and across violent offending, property offending, and drug involvement. When we used propensity score matching to match youth by their involvement in delinquency, disparities in multiple demographic and risk/protective factors emerge between incarcerated and nonincarcerated youth. Our findings point toward racial disparities in the use of incarceration, with African descent youth more likely to be incarcerated. We contextualize our results for youth justice in the Caribbean.

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