National Women's Health Survey for Trinidad and Tobago: Dataset

Pemberton, Cecile; Joseph, Joel

doi:10.18235/0001013

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“…(focus group B, participant 5, 2018). While the research project focused on the rise in male-on-male murder, it should be noted that high levels of men's violence against women in Trinidad date back to colonialism (Pemberton and Joseph 2018). Furthermore, contemporary sexual and gender-based violence rates in the Caribbean are particularly alarming.…”

Section: Old Violencementioning

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“Breaking bad”? Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad

Baird

Bishop

Kerrigan

2021

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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The murder rate in Port of Spain, Trinidad, rose dramatically around the turn of the millennium, driven overwhelmingly by young men in gangs in the city's poor neighborhoods. The literature frequently suggests a causal relationship between gang violence and rising transnational drug flows through Trinidad during this period. However, this is only part of a complex picture and misses the crucial mediating effect of evolving male identities in contexts of pronounced exclusion. Using original data, this article argues that historically marginalized "social terrains" are particularly vulnerable to violence epidemics when exposed to the influence of transnational drug and gun trafficking. When combined with easily available weapons, contextually constructed male hegemonic orders that resonate with the past act as catalysts for contemporary gang violence within those milieus. The study contributes a new empirical body of work on urban violence in Trinidad and the first masculinities-specific analysis of this phenomenon. We argue that contemporary gang culture is a historically rooted, contextually legitimated, male hegemonic street project in the urban margins of Port of Spain.

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Section: Old Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“Breaking bad”? Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad

Baird

Bishop

Kerrigan

2021

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…In the 2006 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 7% of women aged 15-49 believed that "wife-beating" was justifiable in at least one of five instances identified, the most common being "when she neglects the children." This research, which focused primarily on attitudes toward violence, established a co-relation between women's educational achievement, social status, and wealth to their ability to reject harmful ideas about spousal abuse (Pemberton and Joseph 2018).…”

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“…Another benefit of this approach was that it served as a verification process for official data, given the state of police underreporting. According to Trinidad and Tobago's recently completed National Prevalence Study on domestic violence (Pemberton and Joseph 2018), a shockingly low 5% of women affected by intimate partner violence disclose these incidents to the police. Within this context, the media may serve as a more reliable source of data for domestic-violence reporting than the police.…”

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Silent Silhouettes: A Living Reminder of the Urgent Action Needed to End Gender-based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago

Leitch¹

2021

Arts and Health Promotion

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Public health has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of health experts to its detriment. However, this capitalist-inspired separation of parts from their whole has rendered efforts in managing public health crises largely ineffective. In the developing world, the widespread absence of dynamic and responsive health care models that incorporate perspectives from across sectors results in the poor distribution of responsibility for health promotion. In Trinidad and Tobago, the disparities in income, the prohibitive cost of private health care, the over-burdened public health care systems, and rising health bills are all critical incentives for an increased interest and investment in public health initiatives. As the editors of this book frame the conversation of this collection (Chap. 1), borrowing from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) and WHO guidelines, health promotion extends beyond the health sector and toward assuring the "healthy lifestyles and well-being" of individuals. This human-centered approach is grounded in the understanding that multi-sectoral involvement is instrumental to the promotion and attainment of national (and global) optimal health.Locally, while the current health minister has prioritized the need for "healthy living," health promotion is still largely concentrated on the reduction of the national rates of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) (Paul 2016). Given this focus, the minister's main priority has been NCD reduction through the development of the National Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (2017-2021) and other programmatic interventions, such as the ban of sugary beverages in schools and the implementation of a Diabetes Wellness Centre (Doughty 2018). Women's health has also been acknowledged as a priority through the implementation of a Directorate of Women's Health in 2015, as well as S. Leitch (*

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Surviving Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence

Benjamin¹,

Sherna²

2021

Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean

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National Women's Health Survey for Trinidad and Tobago: Dataset

Cited by 8 publications

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“Breaking bad”? Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad

“Breaking bad”? Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad

Silent Silhouettes: A Living Reminder of the Urgent Action Needed to End Gender-based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago

Surviving Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence

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