The phrase "a pattern of harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a recurring or systematic occurrence of negative or damaging actions or behaviors.
Example: "The investigation revealed a disturbing pattern of harm inflicted on vulnerable communities over the years."
Alternatives: "a cycle of damage" or "a trend of injury".
Anti-oppressive theories refer to ideas that seek to explain and respond to issues of discrimination and disadvantage where there tends to be a pattern of loss and harm for de-valued social groups such as women, people with disabilities and people who live on low incomes (Thompson 2011).
Yet it was precisely his experience of depression and a pattern of repetitive self-harm (that Hatton refers to as "the suicide attempts") which principally motivated his return to the ring.
Conduct disorder is a type of maladjusted behaviour characterized by a consistent pattern of harming others or their property, or breaking major accepted rules or standards of behaviour.
In another category, the leaker must be engaged in a pattern of behaviour intended to harm national security.These caveats are hardly surprising.
By the time he turned 16, he was locked into a pattern of crime and self-harm, often at the same time.
Not long after the company arrived in the city, the State Commission of Correction, which investigates each prison or jail death, began publicly criticizing Prison Health for what it called a pattern of providing care that repeatedly harmed inmates with acute physical or mental illnesses.
We found no clear pattern of harm or benefit for any particular insulin regimen.
In civil lawsuits, plaintiffs like the doctors' group use the civil provisions of the RICO statute to contend that they have been economically harmed through a pattern of misconduct.
The American air campaign in Afghanistan, based on a high-tech, out-of-harm's-way strategy, has produced a pattern of mistakes that have killed hundreds of Afghan civilians.
They found "a pattern of unconstitutional policing" and a municipal court system inflicting "unnecessary harm" under a drive to raise more revenues for the city.
