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A Jamaican ghetto "Shotta" (shooter, or gunman) is seen with his face obscured to protect his identity in the Mountain View district of the Jamaican capital, Kingston December 08, 2008. Jamaica is struggling to contain the violence of such ghetto shottas as it faces a grim count for the year 2008 of more than 1600 murders, placing it among the most deadly places in the world per capita. .

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4253x2836 / 7.5MB; 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 masked criminal criminality Kingston slum Mountain View night shadows horizontal 9mm pistol armed tenement yard 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 Jamaican ghetto "Shotta" (shooter, or gunman) is seen with his face obscured to protect his identity in the Mountain View district of the Jamaican capital, Kingston December 08, 2008. Jamaica is struggling to contain the violence of such ghetto shottas as it faces a grim count for the year 2008 of more than 1600 murders, placing it among the most deadly places in the world per capita. .