Epidemiology of violence against young children in Jamaica

Figures & data

Table 1. Prevalence of violent forms of discipline experienced by Jamaican children by age.

Age of child	Violent Forms of Discipline
	Shout (%)		Slap (%)		Shake (%)		Pinch (%)		Bite (%)		Beat with Implement (%)
	Often	Occ.	Often	Occ.	Often	Occ.	Often	Occ.	Often	Occ.	Often	Occ.
9–12 months	2.2	40.9	1.0	28.8	0.5	5.7	0.3	4.0	–	–	–	–
18–22 month	6.0	63.9	3.2	54.8	0.9	1.3	0.5	6.1	0.1	2.5	–	–
4–5 years	27.0	61.9	18.8	73.0	4.2	20.8	3.4	24.5	0.2	1.6	3.4	31.1

Table 2. Prevalence of non-violent forms of discipline experienced by Jamaican 4–5-year olds.

Types of Non-Violent Discipline	Frequency of use of Non-Violent Forms of Discipline at 4–5 years
	Often (%)	Occasionally (%)	Never (%)
Time-Out	15.3	46.0	38.7
Withdrawal of Privileges	19.3	54.4	26.1
Explaining	63.3	34.3	2.4
Reasoning	64.1	34.0	1.9

Table 3. Violence in the communities of young children over a 3-month period.

Types of Community Violence	Frequency of Community Violence in Past 3 month
	Never (%)	1–2 occurrences (%)	3 or more occurrences (%)
Street Fights	53.5	27.1	17.4
Personal Robbery	75.8	16.6	7.6
Home Robbery	71.7	20.8	7.5
Rape	87.7	10.5	1.8
Murder	73.8	19.5	6.7