Many of our children were suffering in silence, and would share with me their depression, their harmful lifestyle choices, and their thoughts of suicide. The essays consider how literary, visual and popular modes of expression can help us imagine legality and legitimacy otherwise, prompting us to question and reconfigure problematic associations of crime and violence with specific places and people, and to reconsider some of the assumptions underlying dominant forms of crime control policy. Please do not write in block capitals since this makes your comment hard to read. Crime, Politics and Extradition in 21st Century Jamaica, Time and the Otherwise: Plantations, Garrisons and Being Human in the Caribbean. Also, when you meet politicians in Jamaicas social or art circles, do they ever comment on your work? States of emergency give authorities increased powers, including the ability to search buildings and carry out arrests without warrants. Michael Elliott is a visual artist based in Jamaica. Property crimes like credit card skimming and stealing money from your debit card or bank account have risen significantly, as have others like cellphone and laptop theft, handbag and purse snatching, and a variety of cons. Meantime, the actual configuration of interracial violence is assiduously ignored. Nobody is going to jump in front of a bullet for the MP. Jamaica declares state of emergency over surging crime, including As citizens, we should be empowered to speak out against criminality, be more responsible for our actions, and encourage our youths on how to deal with situations without resorting to violence. Between 2008 and 2018, gang-related violence was responsible for 56 percent of murders in Jamaica, with a high of 78 A member of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group. This corruption, the political parties' support of gangs, and the increase in drug trafficing over the past three or four decades, are undoubtedly the root cause of the increase in violence and crime in Jamaica. Amanda Sives positions her discussion of crime and politics in twenty-first-century Jamaica in the context of the rapid expansion of transnational crimefacilitated by financial deregulation and the free movement of capital under globalisation (Citation2012, 424).