RT Article
T1 Gangster Jihadism in Trinidad and Tobago
JF The Palgrave handbook of Caribbean criminology
SP 171
OP 187
A1 Clayton, Anthony
A2 Badri-Maharaj, Sanjay 1973-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1931905843
AB 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.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 185-187
SN 9783031523779
K1 Caribbean
K1 Trinidad and Tobago
K1 Crime
K1 Gangs
K1 Violence
K1 Jihadism