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Caribbean fact of the day
According to a voluntary survey cited in the report, 48% of Caribbean adolescent girls surveyed described their own "sexual initiation" as forced.
That is from "Cost of Caribbean Crime Grows," 4 May 2007, The Wall Street Journal. The Caribbean is now the most crime-ridden part of the world, according to the World Bank.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on May 5, 2007 at 08:09 AM in Data Source | Permalink
Comments
Could it be that crimes are more likely to be reported in the Caribbean as compared to elsewhere, due for example to a better-functioning legal system?
Posted by: Peter at May 5, 2007 9:29:05 AM
Peter, the results come from a voluntary survey of the population, not data from the legal system.
Posted by: pjgoober at May 5, 2007 11:24:26 AM
The full article is here.
The article doesn't mention that Barbados has one the lowest crime rates in the world. Understanding what makes Barbados different could be of tremendous importance to policy makers across the Caribbean as well as in the US.
Posted by: Jason Malloy at May 5, 2007 12:55:56 PM
Posted by: Jason Malloy at May 5, 2007 12:59:10 PM
Doesn't matter to our ruling caste: "Come on in, gang. All kinds of gangs. Crime? We'll build walls. As long as we're safe behind our walls, tant pis to the country as a whole."
Posted by: ricpic at May 5, 2007 5:09:25 PM
Legalize it!
Posted by: David Zetland at May 5, 2007 10:58:18 PM
22.2% of girls have had sex at all, so that is 48% of 22.2%. (And lines up, more or less, with the 10.5% who claim to have been sexually abused.)
This from a survey in which over 25% of male respondents (54.8% report "First intercourse" as having occured prior to age 10(under 10 at first intercourse) of 51.9% who had had intercourse). Reliability is an issue.
Posted by: rvman at May 7, 2007 10:23:52 AM
The crime in the Caribbean is very bad, but only in a few areas. If you are involved in the drug culture you are in danger. If you are not in the drug culture, you risks are about average... Also the statistics include disaster countries where people are litterally fighing to live such as Haiti where in Cayman, there is almost no street crime. Note, most of these coutnries it is illegal to own a gun, thus the criminals have guns and have and no fear of finding others unarmed and helpless against the force of a gun.
Posted by: LBF at May 7, 2007 1:54:13 PM
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