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Jamaican boys pretend to have a gang shootout, popping off the lids of juice bottles at one another on a Kingston street June 17, 2008. Children at play in Jamaica often mimmick the environment and the violence that they are surrounded by. Jamaican boys are disproportionately more likely to fall victim to violence, and often are recruited into gangs as early as age 12.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 2268x1512 / 1.9MB; 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 graffiti boys children Kingston criminal games play shoot-out police thieves cops robbers slum gang members at risk horizontal 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

Jamaican boys pretend to have a gang shootout, popping off the lids of juice bottles at one another on a Kingston street June 17, 2008. Children at play in Jamaica often mimmick the environment and the violence that they are surrounded by. Jamaican boys are disproportionately more likely to fall victim to violence, and often are recruited into gangs as early as age 12.