Department of SOC/ANT/CRJ - Dr. Joan Mars
Degrees Earned:
Ph.D. Wayne State University; Legal Education Certificate (J.D. Equiv.) Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad; Bachelor of Laws, University of The West Indies, Barbados.
Teaching Interests:
Criminal Law, Criminology, Sociology of Law, Criminal Investigation and Procedure, International and Comparative Criminal Justice.
Research Interests:
Crime and Immigration, Police Deviance, Law and Social Change, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems.
Recent Publications:
Mars, Joan. (2004) “Colonialism, Political Policing and the Jagan Years,” Pp. 64-88 in Perry Mars and Alma Young (eds.) Caribbean Labor and Politics: Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press.
Mars, Joan. (2004) “Police Abuse of Force in Guyana: Applying Lessons From the United States.” Pp. 206-224 in Anthony Harriot, Farley Braithwaite, and Scot Wortley (eds.), Crime and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak Publications.
Mars, Joan. (2002) Deadly Force, Colonialism and the Rule of Law: Explaining Police Violence in Guyana. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Mars, Joan. (2001) “Rough Justice: Political Policing and Colonial Self-Rule in Guyana.” Caribbean Journal of Criminology and Social Psychology, Vol 6, January and July 2001, Vol. 6, Nos 1 & 2, pp. 1-25.
Recent Presentations:
Mars, Joan. “Immigration and Deportation: Issues and Controversies.” A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas, March, 2004.
Mars, Joan. “U.S. Immigration and Deportation: Caribbean Resident Aliens and the Criminal Justice Process.” A paper presented at the Third International Conference on Crime and Criminology in the Caribbean, Jamaica, West Indies, February 11th- 14th, 2004.
Mars, Joan. “The Effect of U.S. Deportation Policy on Caribbean Aliens.” A paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, March 4-8, 2003.
Mars, Joan. “The Role of Law as a Mechanism for Dispute Resolution: An Analysis of the Election Controversy in Guyana,” a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, Georgia, November 7-10, 2001.