This organised crime has brought increased violence (see chart 5), though not everywhere.
The Global Peace Index 2013 has masses of data on the cost in lives and money of violence, but the chart below gives the clearest picture of how the conflicts fought in 2012 stack up.
The Domestic Violence Exposure Medical Chart Check List was used, collecting data on the patients' lives and physical, sexual and reproductive, and psychological health status, as well as sick leave, hospitalisation, visits to family practices and referrals to other clinical specialists in the past year.
"Our levels of gun violence are off the charts".
Hsiang has also looked at how hot temperatures affect social behaviors and health, concluding that they increase violence and mortality (see charts).
Drawing inspiration from classical Greek tragedy to highlight both the transformative potential and the violence of law, Cabot charts the structural violence effected through European governance, rights frameworks, and humanitarian intervention while also exploring how Athenian society is being remade from the inside out.
"The scale of people fleeing violence is off the charts, outpacing Syria, Yemen and Iraq," she said.
Identification might have been underestimated by relying on clinicians' willingness to document intimate partner violence in women's charts 21 27 32 or participants' recall of what occurred during encounters.
In contrast, the chart showed violence decreasing with "adherence by pious and devout" to the Bible or to the Torah.
If you drew a chart of violence in the area, in the country, in the region, you could come up with all sorts of lines and arrows pointing to one incident or another.
