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A Jamaican mourner wears a death influenced designer shirt as friends and family gather at a June 15, 2008 funeral of a murder victim at the Dovecot Cemetery in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Jamaica's position atop the world's per capita murder rates has in some ways already started to change the culture of the island. Popular music, art and fashion of Jamaica all currently reflect in various ways the problems of high violence rates and the culture of gangs and murder.

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Copyright: Scott Nelson 2007-8
Image Size: 3916x2634 / 1.6MB; 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 fashion death funeral service mourning angel of death style Spanish Town Kingston Police 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 mourner wears a death influenced designer shirt as friends and family gather at a June 15, 2008 funeral of a murder victim at the Dovecot Cemetery in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Jamaica's position atop the world's per capita murder rates has in some ways already started to change the culture of the island. Popular music, art and fashion of Jamaica all currently reflect in various ways the problems of high violence rates and the culture of gangs and murder.