Jamaica's DEMOCRATIC, VIOLENT State

Professor Orlando Patterson, eminent professor of Sociology at Harvard University, penned a piece in the New York Times, about Jamaica's propensity for violence, while functioning in a robust democracy. Join me as I dissect his piece and rpovide some insights on the situation of crime and violence as it bedevils the Jamaican society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/opinion/30patterson.html

https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/SAS-OP26-Jamaica-gangs.pdf