Erratum to: Int J Public Health DOI 10.1007/s00038-017-1001-6

The article “When violence becomes endemic”, written by Leslie F. Roberts, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 03 August 2017 without open access. The original article was corrected.

With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on [26 Oct 2017] to © The Author(s) [2017] and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.