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 […]

To begin, lets take a look at some numbers.  According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (2002) some general characteristics of crime on college campuses are:

41% of the offenders were thought to be using drugs or alcohol
72% of the off-campus crimes occurred between 6PM and 6AM
66% of the assaults were unarmed
58% were committed by strangers.  […]