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Jamaican "Pretty Pussy" girl gang members walk past gang graffiti with their infant children December 15, 2008 in the Rema garrison district of Kingston, Jamaica. Around 80% of children in Jamaica are born out of wedlock, and more than 20% of children are born to teenage mothers. Critics point to these rates as one of several major factors fueling the high rates of crime and violence in Jamaica today.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4175x2784 / 7.1MB; 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 teen pregnancy wedlock births children teens women girls babies baby slum Pretty Pussy gang members female horizontal graffiti Kingston Rema Trenchtown teenage mothers scheme public housing stroller carriage 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

Jamaican "Pretty Pussy" girl gang members walk past gang graffiti with their infant children December 15, 2008 in the Rema garrison district of Kingston, Jamaica. Around 80% of children in Jamaica are born out of wedlock, and more than 20% of children are born to teenage mothers. Critics point to these rates as one of several major factors fueling the high rates of crime and violence in Jamaica today.