Researcher Profile

 

Dr. Randy Seepersad

Dr. Randy Seepersad

 

Conferments:

T.Dip., B.Sc. (First Class Hons.), M.Phil. (Cambridge), Ph.D. (Toronto)

 

Position:

Lecturer

 

Courses taught:

Crime, Police and Society

Research Methods and Statistics in Criminology

Sociology of Penal Practice

 

Research Interests:

Poverty, inequality, relative deprivation, deportation, eating disorders, youth crime and justice, penology, social representations, psychology and crime, philosophy of science, quantitative analysis and research methodology in the social sciences.

 

Publications:

  1. 2008      Beyond Boundaries: A comparative study on criminal deportation in Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.  CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS).
  2. 2008      The Role of Religiosity in Influencing Adolescent Alcohol Use in Trinidad. Journal of Drug Education, 38, 4.  Co-authored with Steve Rollocks, Natasha Dass and Linda Mohammed.
  3. 2008      The Root Causes of Youth Violence: A Review of Major Theoretical Perspectives.  Pp. 1-228 in Roy McMurtry and Alvin Curling (Eds.), The Review of the Roots of Youth Violence: Volume Five.
  4. 2007      Exploring Differences in the Dimensions of Self-Esteem among Urban Indo- and Afro-Trinidadians.  Caribbean Journal of Psychology, Volume 2, Issue 2, p. 65-77.  Co-authored with Steve Rollocks, Natasha Dass and Linda Mohammed.
  5. 2007      A Study of Youth Involvement in Crime and Violence in Jamaica.   Commissioned by the Ministry of National Security, Jamaica.
  6. 2006      The Jamaica National Crime Victimization Survey.