Gangster Jihadism in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago is generally regarded as a Caribbean success story, with relatively high GDP per capita and a more industrialized economy than most of the other countries in the region. The country’s economic development, however, has been vitiated by high levels of corruption and violent crime....
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| Medienart: | Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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The Palgrave handbook of Caribbean criminology
Jahr: 2024, Seiten: 171-187 |
| Verfügbarkeit prüfen: | HBZ Gateway |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Trinidad and Tobago is generally regarded as a Caribbean success story, with relatively high GDP per capita and a more industrialized economy than most of the other countries in the region. The country’s economic development, however, has been vitiated by high levels of corruption and violent crime. The country has remained a democracy since independence in 1962. It has two main political parties, political rhetoric is often aggressive and elections are fiercely contested, but they remain largely free of politically -directed violence. However, the apparent absence of political violence masks a profound problem with the growth of fundamentalism in the country, which has already resulted in two attempted coups and strong links to international terrorist organizations, notably Islamic State, with recruits going to fight in Syria. For many years, these serious problems with crime and fundamentalism were addressed separately. However, the two problems have now hybridized; there is increasing overlap and inter-operability between criminal gangs and radical Islamist groups, which has resulted in a successful model of gangster jihadism that could potentially spread to other Caribbean nations with similar patterns of violent crime compounded by ethnic and religious tensions. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 185-187 |
| ISBN: | 9783031523779 |
