The WHO distinguishes three broad categories of violence: self-directed violence, interpersonal violence, and collective violence.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was more strongly associated with all of the categories of violence; actual physical violence (PR = 3.71, 95%CI 2.53 5.45), threats of violence (PR = 5.09, 95%CI 3.53 7.37), sexual violence (PR = 4.82, 95%CI 3.20 7.26) and violence during pregnancy (PR = 4.31, 95% CI 2.36 7.85).
We recoded this variable into three categories: No violence, mild/moderate (including threats) and severe violence.
The following three categories of violence experiences perpetrated by men were considered at each six month interval and modelled separately: (a) physical violence ("Have you been physically abused by someone (excluding clients) in the last six months?
The Entertainment Software Rating Board, an industry-financed group that has been applying ratings to games since 1994, is placing new titles in four categories -- cartoon violence, fantasy violence, intense violence and sexual violence -- to give buyers a better idea of the games' content.
The tool lets users see the results of the report across a range of categories including violence in childhood and opinions, attitudes and awareness.
NATO officials said they stood behind their data, which does not include some categories of violence used by the United Nations, and said their gathering and analysis techniques had stayed consistent.
jThese are the categories of violence as identified by the FBI, whose data was used to construct Figure 1.
While both men and women are victims of rape, the majority of the data shows almost all perpetrators in all three categories of violence are men.
Rather than having raters review each product, publishers of these games complete a series of multiple-choice questions that address content across relevant categories, including violence, sexual content, language, etc.
