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A Jamaican youth watches as casket makers build coffins June 11, 2008 in a small yard factory in the Denham town neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. An unfortunate side effect of the high violence rates has been a stability in death industries such as casket makers, funeral homes, and cemetery plot sales.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 3847x2565 / 1.3MB; 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 industry economy economic criminal casket burial funeral horizontal Jonestown Denham Town Kingston woodworkers craftsmen workshop factory wood yard tenement 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 watches as casket makers build coffins June 11, 2008 in a small yard factory in the Denham town neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica. An unfortunate side effect of the high violence rates has been a stability in death industries such as casket makers, funeral homes, and cemetery plot sales.