We are teaching them that violence is normal, that the implements of violence are a given instead of a choice.
(Staff nurse, PICU) Staff, especially on acute and PICU wards, appeared stoically to accept that some potential for violence was a given, but strategies for reducing risk were widely seen as inadequate.
Your complicity in this violence, for Sutherland, is a given: there is no opt-in, and there is no opt-out of this world.
Vollmann's announced intention is to work out a set of formulas (his "moral calculus") for determining whether or not violence is a legitimate response to any given situation.
Given that violence is a primary reason so many migrants leave Latin America for the United States, our research explores what factors increase the violence in these countries.
The importance of stress in the development of chronic disease is garnering increasing attention, and the lack of rigorous study of interpersonal violence is a major gap in the literature, given the frequency with which women experience abuse in their intimate relationships.
The chief suggested more victims might be reporting abuse to the police than in past years, but he said understanding the causes behind domestic violence is "a very difficult question". "I can give you a 'where' it's up.
But surveys inevitably obtain information out of context, which is problematic given that sexual violence is a subjective, context-dependent experience.
After Gezi Park, police violence is now a given at demonstrations, and I think that the government is going to be much more hardline towards environmental activism in Turkey".
Domestic violence is an epidemic that is not given the attention it deserves because we, the advocates, don't have the power, respect, or voice to foster real change.
