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A baby plays in a makeshift playpen in a tenement yard June 15, 2008 in the Southside area of Kingston, Jamaica. A recent United Nations report found that the great majority of victims of violent crime in Jamaica live in ghetto areas, and suffer disproportionately high rates of unemployment, limited clean water supplies and electricity.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 2476x1666 / 1.5MB; Jamaica Jamaican gangs violence murder homicide rates capita crime justice society poverty community garrison gangsters guns weapons youth culture Caribbean tropics West Indies ghetto inner-city inner city epidemic tenement yard public housing slum wedlock neglect child baby todler horizontal Kingston Southside Denham Town Jamaica Kingston garrison garrisons gangs ghetto poverty violence gangsters crime culture violence tragic crisis island Jamaican armed gang life killing homicide rate political violence PNP JLP neighborhood members guns weapons criminal projects
Contained in galleries: Jamaican Violence Project

A baby plays in a makeshift playpen in a tenement yard June 15, 2008 in the Southside area of Kingston, Jamaica. A recent United Nations report found that the great majority of victims of violent crime in Jamaica live in ghetto areas, and suffer disproportionately high rates of unemployment, limited clean water supplies and electricity.