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A Jamaican youth uses a piece of wood to simulate a gun during "shotta" play December 10, 2008 in the Rema garrison of Kingston, Jamaica. Although toy guns have been outlawed in Jamaica for several years in an attempt to stem the influence of the spiraling violence into youth culture, it is still common to find Jamaican children with play guns engaged in "police and thieves" type games in the ghettos. Children in these areas are in danger of being recruited by violent gangs as early as age 12.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4368x2912 / 6.2MB; 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 toy rifle wooden gun housing public horizontal teenagers boys teens gang criminality urban decay graffiti gunman shotta shottas schemeKingston Rema Trench Town PNP Peoples National Party 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 youth uses a piece of wood to simulate a gun during "shotta" play December 10, 2008 in the Rema garrison of Kingston, Jamaica. Although toy guns have been outlawed in Jamaica for several years in an attempt to stem the influence of the spiraling violence into youth culture, it is still common to find Jamaican children with play guns engaged in "police and thieves" type games in the ghettos. Children in these areas are in danger of being recruited by violent gangs as early as age 12.