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Students and Faculty from the University of Leicester and The UWI pose for a group shot during the 2019 staging of summer school in Leicester, UK.
INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SECURITY (ICJS)
In 2018/2019, the ICJS continued its work to highlight issues of crime, security and justice in the Caribbean. June 2019 saw the first edition of The UWI/UoL International Summer School successfully rolled-out, allowing UWI students to participate in a week-long intensive programme at the University of Leicester.
It continued its publication of the Caribbean Journal of Criminology (CJC) which is presently the only Caribbean journal which focuses on understanding crime in the region . ICJS contributed to numerous conferences and meetings convened by international organisations for the purposes of setting their research agendas and funding priorities.
An image of the cover for the April 2019 special issue of the Caribbean Journal of Criminology.
These conferences included: the Caribbean Conference on Youth Violence Prevention funded by USAID; Conference on Violence and Toxic Masculinity hosted by the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB); and a similar research agenda-setting conference by the Pan-American Health Organisation (PAHO). Between January and July 2019 ICJS also hosted three researchers—Robert Rivera, University of California; Natalie Ward, University of Amsterdam and Francesca Pilo, Université libre de Bruxelles—all engaged in work on restorative justice, police accountability and governance in Jamaica. This kind of research support serving to deepen The UWI’s global connections and lend for greater evidence-based work in Caribbean criminology.
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