To what extent can orthodox theories on crime and deviance explain crime and deviance in the Caribbean?

... To what extent can orthodox theories on crime and deviance explain crime and deviance in the Caribbean? Breaking the law is typically understood as something deviant and is needed to be reduced. There is a constant goal by governments to lower crime rates in their country but crime, surprisingly, is considered by most Functionalists as being "healthy for society." Without crime society can fall apart. The orthodox view is that crime in developing countries is the product of social change. It is a transformation from a traditional to a more modern stage of development. Modernisation is seen as a disruption to society involving urbanisation, industrialisation and de-population of the countryside which causes imbalances such as overcrowding in the larger cities and a state of anomie or normlessness. According to Ken Pryce (1976) however, "In the third world, the rising crime rate is not a product of modernisation per se, but a symptom

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