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 […]

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 […]