Saturday, December 30, 2006

[Jamaica] Flawed critique, flawed analysis - Deportee study followed tried and tested methodology / Jamaican gleaner, 24 Dec 2006

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Annmarie Barnes
"I write in response to an article published in the In Focus section of The Sunday Gleaner on December 17, in which UWI professor, Bernard Headley, suggested that the recently completed Criminal Deportation Study, of which I am the main author, is flawed. The criticisms levelled at the study team and the funders of the research project are at variance with the facts and distract attention from the substantive elements of the country's first systematic attempt to interrogate the impact of criminal deportation on the society, and to develop a comprehensive policy framework for addressing the increased deportation of Jamaican nationals who have been convicted of crimes in other countries."