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April 2009
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How to track the MURDER SHOES
Forensic technology provides an important tool in evidence gathering and contributes significantly towards successful convictions. While forensic sciences have been used in the region for an appreciable time, most publications on the subject have focused on North American and European situations. A new volume on the subject, “A Crime-Solving Toolkit: Forensics in the Caribbean” promises to bring a geographic and cultural relevance to the area. Edited by Dr Basil Reid, a lecturer in Archaeology at the UWI, St Augustine, the collection focuses on disaster-victim identification protocols, forensic anthropology, computer forensics, geospatial technologies, shoe-print identification, suicide hangings and forensic linguistics. It includes case studies from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. The contributors are Cheryl A. Corbin, Sheau-Dong Lang, Nazir Alladin, Parris Lyew-Ayee, Trevor Modeste, Basil A. Reid, Godfrey A. Steele and Calle Winskog. The book is a publication of the UWI Press and is available at The UWI Bookshop
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It is not just high murder and crime rates in the Caribbean that have contributed to a climate of fear and despair, it is also the unacceptably low rates of arrests, detections and successful prosecutions that leave citizens feeling hopeless and perpetually vulnerable.