‘Why crime plans fail’ now under microscope

The theme of the conference is, "New Challenges in Crime and Justice — From Research to Policy."

The conference is being hosted by the Centre for Crimino-logy and Criminal Justice and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI), and is intended to bring together scholars doing research on crime and justice in the Caribbean, as well as international colleagues from about 100 regions.

In a press conference held yesterday by Professor Ramesh Deosaran, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the West Indies (UWI), and Samraj Harripaul, Legal Advisor in the Ministry of Legal Affairs, both men realised the need to examine the problems behind why crime plans do not work in TT. The phrase "Crime Down 2006" will also be incorporated into the conference.

"We are not trying to develop a crime plan, but simply investigate why there are problems in implementing these plans, and why have these problems not been attended to," said Professor Deosaran.

One of the major objectives of the conference is to utilise the University’s expertise in helping to strengthen government’s action, and citizens’ participation on crime prevention, crime management and several other areas of national security, where there is widespread concern over the crime situation in the country.

Participants are expected to deliver papers within a range of 20 topics on crime, justice and national security.

Data from the conference will be collected and presented to Parliament.

Interested persons can visit www.sta.uwi.edu/conferences/criminology.