Lifetime occurrence of any kind of violence was defined as experience of any act of violence up to the date of the interview, perpetrated by a current or former husband/partner.
In order to assess violence perpetrated by the current or partners of the previous five years against the respondent, we selected 11 questions inquiring about acts of severe and very severe aggression and injuries.
(According to Pakistan's human-rights commission, there had been hundreds of such attacks in the previous five years, many of them perpetrated by men against current and former wives and lovers).
But if he had dwelled a little longer on Kosovo, might he not have found examples where the very hideousness of the phrase "ethnic cleansing" was what we used at the time to generate a proper sense of the horror being perpetrated by Milosevic, whose current travails at a war crimes tribunal in The Hague also go unrecorded?
The current con, perpetrated by some jurists, some editorial writers and some doctors, is that since there is no agreement about the beginning of human life, it is therefore a private religious or philosophical decision and therefore the state and the courts can do nothing about it.
Although the final peace agreement is yet to be signed and current violence perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army in Eastern Congo raises concerns for the region, the largely stable situation in Northern Uganda has meant that communities have begun the process of returning home.
The accounting chicanery perpetrated by Gov. Pat Brown (father of the current Gov. Brown), pithily described by Marc Reisner in "Cadillac Desert," goes some ways toward explaining the Oroville Dam's deficiencies 50 years on.
What is more, much of the Burmese Buddhist population, including the leadership of the civilian government, has absorbed the decades of dehumanizing anti-Rohingya propaganda perpetrated by previous military regimes, and the current "crackdown" does in fact have wide popular support.
In focusing on current abuses in the Middle East, perpetrated by those claiming the mantle of Islam, Americans -- whose Constitution continues to permit enslavement as punishment for crime -- deflect attention from partial U.S. responsibility for the current crisis in Iraq.
Our current mania is buttressed by the genuine harm perpetrated by real child abusers, but it's reinforced by another characteristic.
