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    I do not know if this responses was serious or not, but in NYC they have a union so I would think that you would find these links more suitable then the google link posted:

    http://www.pony-ny.org/

    http://www.urbanjustice.org/ujc/projects/sex.html


    Quote Originally Posted by Kukuforguns View Post
    In addition to female vice LEOs, you may want to consider interviewing actual sex workers. There are any number of blogs by sex workers (http://www.google.com/search?q=court...rchBox&ie=&oe=). Given your reputation, mission, and presence on the internet, you may be able to arrange interviews with these individuals. Robbers' responses to surveys suggest that prostitutes and johns are favorite targets, because both will be carrying relatively large amounts of cash. Prostitutes have a right to self-defense, same as everyone else, and they are a high-risk demographic. They might be interested in what you have to teach.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kukuforguns View Post
    In addition to female vice LEOs, you may want to consider interviewing actual sex workers. There are any number of blogs by sex workers (http://www.google.com/search?q=court...rchBox&ie=&oe=).
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    What about my post suggested I was not serious? The only aspects that suggest such an interpretation to me are: (1) It was my first post; and maybe (2) my username.

    My post was indeed meant to be a serious suggestion. Ms. Jackson was looking for women with first-hand experience with violent encounters. We all know that prostitutes exist. Furthermore, anyone who gives the matter any thought will realize that a woman locking herself up in a room alone with a strange man is a dangerous situation. It therefore seems very likely that prostitutes, as a group, may have greater experience with violent crime than the general female population.

    Are prostitutes an uncomfortable subject? Sure. So are the people who pick through trash cans to collect recyclables. It concerns me that there are tens of thousands of women who may be routinely abused, and yet our discomfort with their livelihood causes us to ignore their experiences -- even when their experiences could help other women.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kukuforguns View Post
    What about my post suggested I was not serious?
    You seemed to greatly miss the spirit of the inquiry.

    Allow me to explain from my point of view...

    First of all, the most specific portion of the original request was:
    Quote Originally Posted by pax View Post
    I'm specifically looking for someone who can articulate differences & similarities in how a mugger or carjacker approaches & initiates a crime when the victim is female vs when victim is male.
    So your suggestion is already missing the mark when you are focused on issues like this:
    Quote Originally Posted by Kukuforguns View Post
    ...a woman locking herself up in a room alone with a strange man is a dangerous situation. It therefore seems very likely that prostitutes, as a group, may have greater experience with violent crime than the general female population.
    But more importantly, you seem to not understand why people like Southnarc (Craig Douglas) are relevant in their field. He isn't someone that you take a class from just because he did UC buys for a long time and got jumped a bunch of times. If that's what it took to be the expert, then actual junkies, who did thousands more buys and got their asses kicked thousands more times, would be better experts.

    Craig's expertise stems from the fact that on his UC buys, there was A/V recording (for court purposes). When a situation ended in violence, he would later consult the video and take notes. After compiling notes on countless buys that "went bad," he established a pattern of behaviors and indicators that warn of an impending assault. Since initially establishing that pattern, he has reviewed countless other videos of violence, seeing if his cues can indeed be found.

    So if we're going back to what pax is looking for, we need a subject matter expert with a similar inclination towards thoughtful analysis. It's not just experience with violence that is the issue, but the ability to systematically analyze the patterns of said violence.

    The other issue that confused me about your original suggestion is that you started by saying that prostitutes would be good subject matter experts, then end by saying that prostitutes would be good students:
    Quote Originally Posted by Kukuforguns View Post
    In addition to female vice LEOs, you may want to consider interviewing actual sex workers.
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    Prostitutes have a right to self-defense, same as everyone else, and they are a high-risk demographic. They might be interested in what you have to teach.
    While the two are not mutually exclusive, it just makes you look all over the map and further makes me question if you properly understood the initial request.

    Reaching out to a group of prostitutes is simply unlikely to yield someone who has the same "thoughtfulness" that I've articulated above, which is what pax is requesting. What are the odds that upon sitting down with the local sex workers union, someone chips up and says, "Oh yea, I've been secretly videotaping all my johns, have analyzed the patterns of violence that occasionally occur, and can articulate the difference in how muggers and carjackers deal with females vs males"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Byron View Post
    You seemed to greatly miss the spirit of the inquiry.

    Allow me to explain from my point of view...

    First of all, the most specific portion of the original request was:

    So your suggestion is already missing the mark when you are focused on issues like this:


    But more importantly, you seem to not understand why people like Southnarc (Craig Douglas) are relevant in their field. He isn't someone that you take a class from just because he did UC buys for a long time and got jumped a bunch of times. If that's what it took to be the expert, then actual junkies, who did thousands more buys and got their asses kicked thousands more times, would be better experts.

    Craig's expertise stems from the fact that on his UC buys, there was A/V recording (for court purposes). When a situation ended in violence, he would later consult the video and take notes. After compiling notes on countless buys that "went bad," he established a pattern of behaviors and indicators that warn of an impending assault. Since initially establishing that pattern, he has reviewed countless other videos of violence, seeing if his cues can indeed be found.

    So if we're going back to what pax is looking for, we need a subject matter expert with a similar inclination towards thoughtful analysis. It's not just experience with violence that is the issue, but the ability to systematically analyze the patterns of said violence.

    The other issue that confused me about your original suggestion is that you started by saying that prostitutes would be good subject matter experts, then end by saying that prostitutes would be good students:


    While the two are not mutually exclusive, it just makes you look all over the map and further makes me question if you properly understood the initial request.

    Reaching out to a group of prostitutes is simply unlikely to yield someone who has the same "thoughtfulness" that I've articulated above, which is what pax is requesting. What are the odds that upon sitting down with the local sex workers union, someone chips up and says, "Oh yea, I've been secretly videotaping all my johns, have analyzed the patterns of violence that occasionally occur, and can articulate the difference in how muggers and carjackers deal with females vs males"?
    You are assuming that a person exists who fits Ms. Jackson's criteria. As much as I wish there were someone paying that type of attention to violence against women, I harbor my doubts that this type of analysis has already been performed. I have a feeling that Ms. Jackson will have to do a good deal of the analysis herself. As you say, Southnarc did not develop his expertise by reviewing a single video, but by reviewing thousands of videos. While there may be indeed thousands of videos of johns approaching UC LEOs, I strongly doubt that you are going to find thousands of videos of johns initiating violence against those UC LEOs. If my pessimistic assumptions are correct, neither the person Ms. Jackson has described nor the documentary evidence you describe exists. If Ms. Jackson is committed to obtaining the answers she seeks, she may well need to become the Southnarc of women's violence. Ms. Jackson is going to need to start collecting the best evidence available, which likely will be first-hand accounts of violence against women.

    On a side note, do you really think it is unlikely that prostitutes are secretly video recording their sessions? They are not dumb. They know they are engaged in a dangerous business. I would not be surprised at all if they record their environment.

    With respect to my comment that prostitutes might make willing students, it was meant to indicate that this could be a mutual back-scratching exchange. As criminals, prostitutes might be reluctant to freely share their experiences. Some may -- I don't have experience with prostitutes. If they don't, Ms. Jackson could offer to provide some basic training to prostitutes who would be willing to discuss their experiences.

    Southnarcs don't wash ashore, wholly formed from the foaming ocean. I wish Ms. Jackson the best and hope she finds what she is trying to find. If she doesn't find it, I encourage her to develop the expertise she is trying to find.

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    Pax,

    So you're interested in recognizable -physical- differences in technique the criminal uses to approach a female (intended) victim versus how they approach a man, all other things about the crime being equal? Not the behavioral science/victimology stuff about victim selection?

    To over-simplify, once they choose the victim do they "sidle" one way with men and another with women and, if so, how?

    I want to ask the right question.

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    Thanks -- that's it, exactly.

    Matthew,

    I'm not sure I can yet formulate exactly the question I'm asking (if I had the right question, the answer might be inherent within it). But I am interested in the criminal's initial selection of the victim, how the criminal chooses which crime he's going to commit, how he initially approaches the victim to keep her defenses from going up, and the physical details of the attack process.

    Marc MacYoung talks about the five stages of violent crime:
    • Intent
    • Positioning
    • Interview
    • Attack
    • Reaction


    Marc says that the first three items on that list are not linear; they swap places sometimes based on the circumstances. Sometimes the intent to commit the crime comes after the interview (eg some victims give off a wounded-rabbit call that makes the predator's mouth water). Sometimes the positioning falls into place and sometimes they have to work for it. So there are several variables there that can shift around based on circumstances, and I want to know some ways that dance changes when there's a female victim. It does change in some obvious ways, because women are subject to some types of attacks men rarely face, just as men are subject to types of attacks women rarely face. For example, I don't know of a lot of female bar fighters or bouncers, and while men do sometimes get raped, sexual assault isn't high on the list of things most men would expect to face. So the types of crimes shift, and we could expect to see differences in the interview process based on the type of victim the criminal wants to use.

    So that's one piece of the puzzle I'd like a better look at, the question of how the interview changes based on the victim's demographic & personal details.

    There's another piece: how does the criminal choose which crime he's going to commit? Let me unpack that a little, because that sounds almost like a silly question, but it's not. We know that young men need to learn how to see a status seeking show for what it is, and (closely related) how to defuse the tensions created by the monkey dance. These skills help stop "Whadda you lookin' at!?" from turning into a violent crime. Related, we know that both men and women benefit from learning how to handle the dynamics of a simple mugging, which can help avoid the mugging from turning into a violent assault. So the related question is, are there similar skills women could be using to help keep a simple carjacking from turning into a kidnapping/rape/murder? Or things one can do to help avoid the criminal switching from a burglary to a rape?

    I also want to know some of the variables the criminals key on when selecting the victim. Body language is a big part of it, but most of the people who have studied body language have looked at it through men's eyes. I want to know if there's anyone out there who has looked at it through womens' eyes. Is a sexy walk, wearing high heels, walking like you're in a dress -- are all of those things automatically calling the predator, or is there something else that just goes alongside those things and is what's actually sending that signal?

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    Hi Kathy,

    I did not recognize your nick. We met once when I interrupted your class, I was looking for Todd.

    I wish to make a slight digression here to point out some Male/Female issues from your original post.
    From the way it was phrased I assumed that the poster was some male martial arts instructor looking
    for some ultimate martial secrets (all bluster and no content). There are certainly plenty of those on the web.
    And instead of asking thoughtful questions it appeared you were looking for an ultimate answer.
    Further I actually assumed that Tam was mocking you with her followup post, as in "I wish to follow you,
    oh great leader and martial arts master". It did seem like you were trying to "win the martial-arts Internets".
    There may be others here who were similarly mislead by the style of the original post as to your intent.

    I would suggest talking with William April. He seems to have the most knowledge about violent criminal motivations. I still have nightmares about the criminal who decided he had a free afternoon so could spend the time flaying the home owner. He is also very knowledgeable about the classes which are commercially available and can help you to figure out which approaches are useful.

    Another resource might be Larry Lindenman. In particular he has written some very insightful comments about body language when interrogating suspects and has been able to draw from non traditional sources (the current crop of book on "how to pick up girls") to improve his police work. I know he is currently working on developing a self-defense class (personal awareness MUC class) especially for women.


    Also there is Tania Pendarakis who is known for teaching a course on pre-assault cues. She was recommended by Massad Ayoob and was the only other person I could find who had a sort of followup class to SouthNarc's MUC. I am planning on taking her course.


    COURSE TITLE
    "Liar, Liar Face on Fire; Detecting Deception in Subjects, Suspects, Victims and Witnesses"


    COURSE LENGTH
    8 hours

    COURSE OBJECTIVES
    Study the elements of establishing rapport
    Classify different learning and sorting styles
    Study human physiological responses to stress
    Recognize Fight or Flight behavior indicators
    Identify aggressive behavior cues
    Discuss techniques to maximize officer safety
    Identify non-verbal cues that can indicate deception
    Recognize verbal cues that can indicate deception
    Analyze facial expressions and eye movements
    Discuss the psychology of lying
    Design strategies to prepare for contact
    Determine interviewing and interrogation best practices

    http://www.athenatraining.net/documents/about_us.html

    http://www.liarliarfaceonfire.com/in...r_profile.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by nycnoob View Post
    Further I actually assumed that Tam was mocking you with her followup post, as in "I wish to follow you,
    oh great leader and martial arts master".
    Heck, no! I thought it was a frickin' genius idea and it's so obvious in hindsight that I was a little embarrassed that it had never crossed my mind before.
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    Thanks - that's very helpful. I'll track those people down.

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