As an academic discipline, it has been argued that criminology (and criminal justice) originated in Western jurisdictions, namely, Europe and the USA. Within recent times, a slew of academicians have sought to debunk the aforementioned ‘Western-centric’ narrative that criminology and have provided supporting evidence. Despite the ongoing debate surrounding the genesis of the discipline, many early criminologists were either based in the West, produced scholarship that was Western-centric, and/or used their Western bases to conduct research in the West and juxtaposed it onto other geographic locales. Notwithstanding this, the earliest criminologists were successful in producing extant knowledge, theories, methodologies, conceptual frameworks, policies, literatures, academic institutions, and think-tanks which facilitated criminology (and criminal justice) as we know it today. As debates and critiques of the ‘Western-centric’ nature of criminology have continued unabated, the result is an increased research focus on non-Western criminology and criminal justice in diverse jurisdictions, including the Caribbean. This chapter sets the tone for Volume 1 of the book ‘Fuelling the Development of a Caribbean Criminology: A 21st Century Imperative’ by espousing the virtues of a Caribbean criminology as first proffered by Ken Pryce (1976) and furthered by Maureen Cain (1996) and the author of this chapter.