RT Article
T1 Exploring non-enforcement in same-sex relations in the English-speaking Caribbean cCountries: a positive appraisal
JF The Palgrave handbook of Caribbean criminology
SP 495
OP 511
A1 Stanislas, Perry
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1931911614
AB The chapter critically explores the apparent paradox of the police in English-speaking Caribbean and other former colonial countries historical reluctance to enforce criminal legislation designed to outlaw same-sex activities among males. This issue is important given the prevailing assumption that colonial/former colonial police passively enforced laws formed in the Metropolitan countries and has been reignited in the face of efforts of the US to exercise its cultural hegemony against primarily black nation-states in the developing world by the aggressive promotion of their LGBTQ agenda at the expense of their national priorities. To complicate matters research in several English-speaking Caribbean countries indicate hostility against same- sex relationships. Despite this evidence the police have not changed their traditional reluctance to enforce the laws prohibiting same-sex activity. The chapter attempts to reconcile these issues and critically explores the various implications around why weak Caribbean countries have become the primary targets of this new Western priority.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 509-511
SN 9783031523779
K1 Colonial policing
K1 Caribbean policing
K1 Postmodern identities
K1 Regulating sexualities
K1 Hypermasculinity