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Jamaican women and children in a Southside area tenement housing yard June 16, 2008. An estimated 30-45% of the roughly 950,000 population of Kingston live in overcrowded inner-city communities like Southside, suffering a disproportionate rate of unemployment, lack of basic services like clean water or electricity, and often falling victim to the violent crime that has made Jamaica one of the most deadly per capita places to live in the world.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 4235x2823 / 3.6MB; 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 neglect tenement yard yards Kingston Jonestown Craigs Town Southside play children boys wedlock public housing horizontal supervision 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 women and children in a Southside area tenement housing yard June 16, 2008. An estimated 30-45% of the roughly 950,000 population of Kingston live in overcrowded inner-city communities like Southside, suffering a disproportionate rate of unemployment, lack of basic services like clean water or electricity, and often falling victim to the violent crime that has made Jamaica one of the most deadly per capita places to live in the world.