Krav Maga Blog Articles

I have worked in retail loss prevention – preventing “shoplifting”, thefts by employees, and thefts throughout the supply chain such as at distribution centers - in a number of different capacities, and it is an area of crime-prevention that I have always been interested in. Especially when organized retail theft, has possible links to terrorism e.g., there is evidence that Al-Qaeda started to engage in organized, large-scale shop-lifting enterprises, to help fund their activities because they could no longer rely solely on Bin-Laden’s “legitimate” construction businesses for income when the economic downturn in 2008 hit construction especially hard. AQ, was...

Criminologists Jack Katz and Randall Collins have made the case that crime and violence in the social sciences tends to be explained by referencing and directly linking the criminal and/or violent act to something else e.g., violent offending is the result of childhood neglect or the result of lead exposure etc. Often, the social sciences look to a specific cause in order to explain a certain effect, and if not establishing a cause, then at least a correlation. One “relationship” that has been persistent within criminology is that of poverty and crime, even though statistically the relationship has been shown...

Most aggressive and potentially violent incidents are the result of bad social interactions. These can be with strangers, but they can also involve friends and family members; sometimes these incidents can see us become angry faster and more quickly because we a) feel safe responding to people we know in this way i.e., we don’t expect them to punch us, whilst with a stranger we have no idea how they might respond to our angry outburst, and b) these are the individuals who we feel should be supportive, non-critical and non-challenging/non-threatening to us etc. There is also an inherent danger...