This research has explored the literature and noted that there is a correlation between dancehall genre and adolescent sexual and violent behavior. Studies have shown that graphical lyrical contents in some music can impact adolescent sexual and violent behavior. Issues relating to sex and violence among adolescents have, in recent times, raised much public health and policy concerns, especially in an era where first sexual debut is at the mean age of 11.4 years for boys and 12.8 years for girls in Jamaica. Adolescents’ psycho-social response to dancehall genre has become a national and public health concern, and has raised policy debate in terms of adolescent's sexual and violent behavior (with respect to pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV)).
