The Emergence of an Afro-Caribbean Legal Tradition: Gender Relations and Family Courts in Kingston, Jamaica

by Suzanne LaFont

A classic study of the ways in which the law can be at odds with the society it seeks to protect, this study demonstrates how the recent reforms in Jamaican family legislation have failed to close the discrepancies between social laws reflecting a nuclear family structure and the needs of a culturally distinct population engaging in serial mating, out-of-wedlock births, and absentee paternity. Based on participant observations, interviews and close...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188092191X
• ISBN13: 9781880921913
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Austin & Winfield Publishers
• Length: 250 Pages