ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE LATIN AMERICAN REGION

Abstract

Empirical evidence exists which showed that transnational criminal networks like Shower Posse wreaked havoc on Jamaican society as well as impacted many other nations. Many transnational organised crime syndicates use their economic base to weaken governance structures, terrorize communities, increase psychological fear, murder rivals and enemies, launder money, corrupt public officials, and weaken internal democracy. The objectives of the current study are: 1) To evaluate transnational organized crimes in the Caribbean with some reference to other jurisdictions, and 2) To determine strategies that can be used to lower, curtail and likely address transnational organized crime in the Caribbean regions. For this work phenomenology was used to examine transnational organized crimes. Within the context of the economics of crime, without addressing the economic vulnerability of people with nations, it will be increasingly difficult to solve criminal operations in the long-term. The new measures instituted and that will be formulated to address some of the challenges identified in this research will be shifted in the future if the general economic vulnerability within the state is not addressed.