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Onlookers stand above the body of a young, male murder victim found dumped in a gully in Meadowbrook Estate neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica June 13, 2008. On average there is a murder every 5.5 hours in Jamaica, an astronomical rate given the total population of the tiny Caribbean nation is only around 3 million.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 1839x2624 / 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 death corpse body vertical onlookers criminal Meadowbrook Estate 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

Onlookers stand above the body of a young, male murder victim found dumped in a gully in Meadowbrook Estate neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica June 13, 2008. On average there is a murder every 5.5 hours in Jamaica, an astronomical rate given the total population of the tiny Caribbean nation is only around 3 million.