Criminal Thinking

Gershon Ben Keren

Mon 25th Apr 2022

All criminal acts, including those that involve violence, aim to achieve a goal. In some cases, the goal is tangible, such as stealing a wallet, in others it may be social, emotional and/or psychological etc., such as an individual selecting a person to victimize in order to maintain some “badass” image they have created for themselves etc. Such criminal behavior(s) is the result of criminal thinking and thought processes; and both are interrelated. Although the initial act of committing a crime may be the result of an idea or thought, it is the continuation of such behavior, which starts to...Click To Read More

Further Studies In Victim Vulnerability

Gershon Ben Keren

Mon 18th Apr 2022

Some people are more keenly attuned to interpreting a person’s vulnerability via the way they walk, move, and carry themselves (non-verbal cues), than others. Serial Killer, Ted Bundy, once stated that he, “could tell a victim by the way she walked down the street, the tilt of her head, the manner in which she carried herself. “In last week’s article I took a look at the oft quoted, and referred to, 1981 study by Betty Grayson and Morris Stein, where they videotaped people walking on a New York Street, and then showed the footage to offenders, asking them to select...Click To Read More

That Grayson & Stein Study

Gershon Ben Keren

Mon 11th Apr 2022

There is a piece of research conducted in 1981 by Grayson and Stein that I reference a lot, when talking about victim selection, both in this blog, and when conducting corporate self-protection training or teaching my regular classes etc., however I realized recently that I hadn’t explained the research method(s), or the results in one place/article. In this article I want to take a look in more detail at this extremely important piece of research into the non-verbal/physical cues which indicate the level and degree of perceived vulnerability that predatory individuals look for when selecting victims. In the next article...Click To Read More

Incels & Violence

Gershon Ben Keren

Mon 4th Apr 2022

Incels (a portmanteau of the term Involuntary Celibates) are members of a group/online community who believe that they are inherently incapable of forming intimate/romantic relationships due to a number of factors, including the idea that they are unable to compete with others who are better looking, physically more acceptable etc. Prior to the early 2000’s, most research into celibacy focused on individuals who had decided not to pursue/engage in sexual activities, rather than those who wished to but were unable to do so. The term first came to light in the early 1990’s through a number of discussion boards, which...Click To Read More