Contents -- Preface -- Summary -- Sammandrag -- Yhteenveto -- 1. Violence, its development and available sources in the Nordic countries -- 1.1 Denmark -- 1.2 Norway -- 1.3 Sweden -- 1.4 Finland -- 1.5 Iceland -- 1.6 A special case: workplace violence -- 1.7 The trends of violence in the Nordic countries: reconciling divergent indicators -- 2. Learning about and from variations in violence -- 2.1 Variations between countries -- 2.2 Other variations -- 2.3 The Constant and Changing Features in Finnish Homicides -- 3. Measuring violence in intimate relationships -- 3.1 Våld i nära relationer, källor i Sverige -- Referenslista: -- 3.2 Norway -- 3.3 Iceland -- 3.4 Finland -- 3.5 Denmark -- 3.6 How to improve measurement of violence in intimate relationships? -- 4. Assessing different ways of measuring violence -- 4.1 Main sources -- 4.2 Are there violence surveys that are comparable across the Nordic countries? -- 4.3 Health care and social services data -- 4.4 Suggestions for further research -- References.