Crime in Trinidad and Tobago: the effect of alcohol use and unemployment La delincuencia en Trinidad y Tabago: el efecto del consumo de alcohol y del desempleo

• Main Authors: Hari D. Maharajh, Akleema Ali
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2004
• Subjects: Alcohol; crime; public health; Trinidad and Tobago; unemployment; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Trinidad
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/8c99f306d60942ed9ede970afd05fe6f

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine whether unemployment and alcohol consumption were associated with different types of crime in Trinidad and Tobago. METHODS: This study made use of secondary data from the Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago for the period 1990­1997....