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Jamaican girls walk down a street June 17, 2008 in the Rema area of Kingston, Jamaica. Around half of Jamaican girls under 20 report having experienced sexual harassment, coercion, or rape. Teen pregnancy rates among female Jamaican teenagers are also disproportionately high and around 80% of all Jamaican children are born out of wedlock, factors which critics claim contribute in various ways to the problem of high violence in Jamaican society.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4182x2788 / 2.9MB; 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 neighborhood slum children girls family criminality tenement yards yard horizontal daily life street shadows Kingston Rema shottas shotta 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 girls walk down a street June 17, 2008 in the Rema area of Kingston, Jamaica. Around half of Jamaican girls under 20 report having experienced sexual harassment, coercion, or rape. Teen pregnancy rates among female Jamaican teenagers are also disproportionately high and around 80% of all Jamaican children are born out of wedlock, factors which critics claim contribute in various ways to the problem of high violence in Jamaican society.