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A Jamaican family sits out front of their tenement yard housing in the Matthews Lane area of Kingston June 16, 2008. A recent United Nations report found that the great majority of victims of violent crime in Jamaica live in ghetto areas, and suffer disproportionately high rates of unemployment, limited clean water supplies and electricity. .

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4368x2912 / 4.2MB; 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 tenement yard Kingston yards braiding family wedlock slum Southside PNP public housing horizontal 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 family sits out front of their tenement yard housing in the Matthews Lane area of Kingston June 16, 2008. A recent United Nations report found that the great majority of victims of violent crime in Jamaica live in ghetto areas, and suffer disproportionately high rates of unemployment, limited clean water supplies and electricity. .