… of violence within each country from an insider's point of view of the country in its specific
international … , anthropology, and sociology of violence as well as political scientists and others …

With the world's prison population continuing to grow and the number of secure inpatient
beds in psychiatric hospitals on the rise, establishing valid and reliable methods of identifying …

Violence has increasingly become recognized as a pressing public health problem requiring
urgent attention. In 1993, World Health Day was devoted to violence and injuries and in …

This paper reviews the international literature on intimate partner violence with a focus on
gender differences in perpetration and victimization rates. A total of 35 studies from 21 …

… We face several challenges in developing a world map of violence against women, even
when we focus solely on physical violence by intimate partners. Definitions of violence and …

Mental health professionals are routinely called upon to assess the risk of violence
presented by their patients. Prior surveys of risk assessment methods have been largely …

… ’ (violence as force) and ‘comprehensive’ (violence as violation) definitions of violence, policy
makers at the national and international … post-conflict) violence; between interpersonal and …

It is a startling fact that when in the mid-80s a ‘third wave’of democracy took hold in Latin
America and Eastern Europe, both democracy and violence were simultaneously on the rise …

… of how best to end violence in the environments that are so … that violence can never be
successfully ended by violence. … a survey reflective of all our international perspectives. It is an …

… Based on our reading of reports on school violence from across the … for international
perspective on school violence. We therefore suggest a worldwide study to monitor school violence. …