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Introduction to the Societal Violence Scale: Physical Integrity Rights Violations and Nonstate Actors
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 38, Number 4, November 2016
- pp. 1102-1108
- 10.1353/hrq.2016.0058
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Measures of physical integrity rights violations typically focus on abuses by state actors. However, nonstate actors also represent a grave threat to personal security. This article introduces the Societal Violence Scale (SVS) which uses the US State Department Human Rights reports as a basis for developing a new scale of physical integrity rights abuses by nonstate actors to gain a more comprehensive, but at the same time disaggregated, picture of human security threats across the globe.