Recidivism in the Caribbean

Dacia Leslie is Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indies, Mona. Her doctoral research explores the micro and macro-level social factors that bear upon the effective reintegration of Jamaican ex-prisoners returning to Jamaican society. Within the last decade Leslie has worked on several developmental projects including the most recent Caribbean Human Development Report 2016 where she served as a Research Contributor. Dacia Leslie is the Chair of the Crime Prevention and Offender Management (CPOM) research cluster at the University of the West Indies, Mona and member of the British Society of Criminology and the Howard League for Penal Reform.

• 1. Exploring the Link between Reintegration and Recidivism in Jamaica.- 2. Cycles of Crime and Urban Poverty: Challenges for Offender Reintegration.- 3. Helping Disadvantaged Offenders Lead Reintegrated Lives.- 4. Doing Research on Social Reintegration.- 5. Enablers of Ineffective Community Reintegration.- 6. ‘Back to Square One’: The Role of Prison.- 7. Offender Attempts to Lead [Re]integrated Lives, What Helps?.- 8. In Search of the Silver Bullet: Provider Experiences.- 9. ‘Redemption Songs’, Unearthing Landscapes.