Crime and violence are major problems faced by Jamaicans, which dates back to pre-independence. Politics brought new dimensions to the matters that have been exasperated since the 1940s and more so in the 1970s during the Cold War, political and ideological divisiveness. The crime problem had reached an alarming proportion in the Caribbean that prompted a conference in 1998, which was hosted in Barbados on ‘Crime and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean’ in order to ascertain measures, policies, programmes, and intervention that can be instituted to remedy the pandemic. Using data from a crosssectional probability survey in 2007, a group of researchers found that 11/25 Jamaicans indicated that crime and violence were the number one national problem followed by unemployment. Another author stated that “The problem of crime in the Caribbean – its causes, its consequences, and its control – emerged as a major concern during the 1990s”, suggesting that this problem extends beyond Jamaica to the wider Caribbean region. Statistics dating back to early nineteenth century established that crime and violence have some tenets that emerged during slavery.