There is a good chance many readers have heard victims of crime described as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Granted this may be the case, but if we take a moment and examine crime for what it is, a premeditated attack on an unsuspecting person, we learn there are more factors […]

On the job violence still ranks high on the list of concerns for health care workers. The risk of a patient erupting in violence is a very real threat that needs to be addressed. So how can you tell if you are likely to be assaulted? The answer may be found in basic psychology, at […]

Violence Prevention around campus is more than just being safe on-campus, it also involves being safe around campus. There are several areas where you should pay extra mind to make sure your safety is ensured.  In this article we examine a few areas that have been known to be trouble spots.
Stairwells: This one is tough […]

Since I started training martial arts many years ago I have seen one common theme demonstrated by practitioners- that of really wanting to teach a bad guy a lesson, to really tune somebody up, kick an assailants skull in or some similar mindset. In a nutshell, they want to put into practice what they have learned in […]

Your home (or your dorm) should be the place where you can go to unwind, chill, kick-back and throw down a few (if you are into that).  Sadly, assaults happen in dorms and off-campus housing all across America.  The focus of this article will be primarily how to keep yourself safe while living off campus […]

In recent weeks I attended a conference that addressed various topics surrounding violence on today’s campuses, one of the workshops dealt with hate crimes.  I was surprised to hear how often they occur, actually now that I think about it, I was not all that surprised.  I would like to think we have progressed passed this […]

There is a lot of talk in the self-defense community about the use of intuition.  On a personal level I am a big fan of utilizing it to its fullest potential.  Anything to avoid a physical conflict in my books takes top billing.  In short, your intuition is figuratively and literally a “gut feeling” that something […]

I am often asked what a potential criminal looks like.  Well the answer often lies in not what they look like rather how they behave.  My personal theory is the media (movies and the like) have wrongly conditioned us to think that all criminals have a certain look.  For example they may look evil, scary […]

There are various degrees of stalkers.  Typically in my classes I talk about the four types of stalker.  In this article I’ll focus on only three types since the fourth type really is not applicable.  In broad terms there are essentially three types of stalkers: intimate partners, delusional and what is often defined as a […]

Such popular social networking sites like Facebook, My Space, Orkut (if you are Brazilian or Indian- they have a lot of users) and the like have become immensely popular in the past several years.  Like any good thing there is often a dark side that comes with it, or grows out of it.  If you […]