Krav Maga Blog Articles

Over the course of a couple of recent articles, I looked at how Social Learning Theory and Freud’s Instinct Aggression Theory attempted to explain aggressive and violent behaviors. These were two of the first theories on aggression/violence that were covered on my degree/undergraduate program. The third approach/set of theories I was exposed to involved how anger and frustration could lead to aggression and violence. This was something that was the focus of several studies in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Dollard et al., initially proposed that all frustration inevitably led to aggression whether that occurred in the moment or was delayed...

It’s a common argument that is often made by the political right, whether in the UK, US or Europe, that crime is always getting worse. In the 1980’s both Reagan in the US, and Thatcher in the UK claimed that their parties were the parties of “law and order”. Whilst the 1980’s in both the US and the UK saw a period of high crime, since the mid-1990’s the crime rate in both countries has been falling steadily, with an occasional “blip” (especially around the COVID & Immediate Post-COVID time), but nothing that would be seen as significant or that...

We have all had moments of madness. Times when we have acted recklessly without a thought to the consequences of our actions etc. Most of the time there are no consequences i.e., we get away with it; the disregard for rationality doesn’t punish us. However, sometimes it does. A reaction that we have in the moment comes back to haunt us. There is unfortunately a long litany of “one punch killers”, who never intended to cause the death of another and yet this was the result of their actions. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t those who had a killer’s...