The modern world is drastically changing and many people are far from ever understanding the patterns that current criminality follows. In a precise description of several issues unknown to the vast majority of the population, this book intends to promote a higher conscience about how crime really occurs and how to predict one from ever occurring. This is, therefore, a manual of self-help mostly dedicated to Travelers and Law Enforcement Officers. Within the different chapters, it's possible to obtain information on how a criminal thinks, which environments offer less safety and why, how does a crime occurs, but also how to predict one from ever occurring. The information here presented may surprise the reader but it's as sharp as it can get and goes far beyond what even a police officer usually knows. The content here provided combines insights from many fields, namely Special Anti-Terrorist Units, Police Officers, Security Guards, but mostly, hundreds of personally witnessed and investigated situations. The Author, a well-known researcher and self-defense Instructor, provides here a synthesis of decades working in this field.

The best self-defense technique you will ever learn in your life consists in avoiding danger, but before that you will need to recognize it and be ahead of the events when they occur. The Author of this book has coached many self-defense instructors, security guards, and police officers, as well as spies, to understand the elements that compose the criminal behavior. This is a book based on such theory, and directed towards the analysis of the criminal behavior and thinking structure. In this book you will obtain knowledge that is unknown to the majority of the martial art Instructors, knowledge that can save your life and the one of those around you. Thanks to the information provided here, you will understand why the Author can do things that seem impossible to many, like stopping a robbery with psychological control and without any need of physical confrontation, as well as how to detect the possibility of robbery before the robber decides about whom to rob. The content of this book is also based on the Author's personal experience inside gangs and in observing their way of thinking, as well as his knowledge in martial arts, namely in teaching several of them. The Author has studied Chinese Martial Arts in China, Filipino Martial Arts in the Philippines and Thailand's Martial Arts in Thailand, but also Japanese Martial Arts, among others. This is a book that teaches you to understand Martial Arts and Self-defense beyond what you could ever imagine, but also learn to recognize which techniques can be effective in the street or not. It's, above all, a book that will help you to survive with strategies that could have saved the life of many martial artists that have died trying to defend themselves. If you can understand it, you can also realize which martial art really works for street defense and which doesn't, as well as which path to take in life when you need to learn to protect yourself. However, if you're a Bodyguard, this is a book that you'll need to carry all the time in your pocket, because your career and life, and especially the life of your clients, depends on how much you can assimilate about it.