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While specific questions for each group will differ, given the diversity in age and gender, and

risk profile, the following themes among the members of the group were universal:
• The good and the bad in their lives as they perceive it—in their school, their community,

and in Jamaica —included specific issues relating to violence and experiences of
violence.

• Self-awareness, identity, role models
• The family—male and female roles, intimate partner violence, corporal punishment

including in schools
• Friends, peer pressure, entertainment

• Interests, clubs, gangs, hunger
• Social media

MAP SHOWING MURDER HOTSPOTS IN KINGSTON, ST CATHERINE AND CLARENDON IN
2017 (The large red and orange area in St. Catherine is Spanish Town and its environs and the ones in
Clarendon are May Pen and Farm/Effortville)

The Corner Reasonings focused more directly on the specific pro-violence social norms.

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