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133:, the term "yardie" can be ambiguous, having multiple meanings depending on context. In the most innocuous sense, "yardie" can simply refer to a Jamaican national; as "yard" can mean "home" in Jamaican Patois, Jamaican expatriates who moved abroad to countries such as the U.K. and U.S. would often refer to themselves and other Jamaicans as "yardies". "Yardie" may also more specifically apply to those Jamaicans originating in the impoverished "government yards" or courtyards of Jamaican 137:, and the term was eventually applied to criminals and gang members originating from these "yards." As the term "yard" in Jamaican Patois can also refer to a territory, turf, or piece of land, "yardie" further gained gang or criminal connotations as Jamaican gangs or criminals claimed certain "territories" or "turf" and referred to such territory as their "yards." Subsequently, in the U.K. and, to a lesser extent, 234:", which came into effect in January 1949. This act introduced the status of "Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies" (CUKC), essentially putting all residents within Britain's colonies on an equal footing with existing residents of the British Isles and gave every person within the British commonwealth the right to move to the UK, if they so wished. Within the 359:
police are hesitant to categorize British Yardie gangs as organized crime, since there appears to be no real structure or central leadership; affiliations between the various Yardie gangs in the UK can be described as loose at best. Academics have noted a tendency to over-label black British crime as
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By the 1980s, a drop in government budgets resulted in less money being paid by political parties to their gangs of armed supporters. These political Yardie gangs thus increasingly turned to apolitical criminal activity, such as drug trafficking, to bring in income. At the same time, the Jamaican
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were sometimes referred to as "Yardies" due to reference of Jamaica as "back a yard" (or "back home"). A large influx of inner city Jamaican immigration to Britain during the 1980s led to the rise of gang violence or behaviour on the part of Jamaicans which became known in wider
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government severely cracked down on Yardie gangs and political violence in general, leading many so-called Yardie gangsters to immigrate abroad and establish gangs in the U.K., U.S., and Canada. The establishment of Yardie gangs abroad coincided with the
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in addition to political violence and political intimidation. These gangs became known as "Yardies," "posses", or "crews". Accounts of the association between Jamaican political factions and the rise of the Yardies are given in the factual books
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developments employing large public courtyards, and the courtyard areas soon became the hub of social and recreational activity in the crowded housing of Trenchtown. With increasing overcrowding and poverty, however,
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led to local politicians buying and selling patronage within the community and paying gangs and violent political supporters to intimidate voters and threaten, assault, or kill political opponents.
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as "Yardie culture" and the participants "Yardies". The terms "Yardie gang" or "Yardie gun violence" were largely used by the British media to describe violent crimes in
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and politically-affiliated organized crime groups and street gangs became increasingly common in poorer areas of Jamaica, with gangs often led by older bosses known as "
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groups and gangsters of Jamaican origin, nationality, or ethnicity. In this sense, the term is sometimes used interchangeably with the term "posse" or "
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and inhabited by poorer Jamaican residents, though "yard" can also refer to "home" or "turf" in general in Jamaican patois.
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in both North America and the U.K., and Yardie and Posse gangs from Jamaica became heavily involved in the trafficking of
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developed within the yards. Crime, drug abuse, and violence overran the yards, while political corruption and
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Cocaine and Heroin Trafficking in the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Guyana
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Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Control Policies in the European Union and Beyond
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organized crime groups and gangs, while "posse" has become the more common term in North America.
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Some maintain that the supposed reach and influence in communities of these "Yardies" is a myth.
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origin, though its exact meaning changes depending on context. The term is derived from the
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A number of operations to combat Yardie gun crime have been set up, notably
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Outside of Jamaica, "yardies" is often used to refer to Jamaican
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area. Yardies (or imitating) gangs also appear to be active in
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don) and participating in apolitical drug trafficking and
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Yardie gangs are notorious for their involvement in
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Index

Yardies
Yardie (disambiguation)
Caribbean
Jamaican diaspora
Jamaican
Jamaican patois
yard
government yards
government-funded
Kingston
gangs
organized crime
Jamaican posse
North America
United Kingdom
political corruption
political violence
assassination
drug trafficking
gang violence
Jamaican Patois
public housing
North America
British Jamaican
Trenchtown
Kingston, Jamaica
social housing
squatting
homelessness
clientelism

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