Are you safer walking down a street with bars and nightclubs at 10 o’clock at night or through a park at 10 o’clock on a weekday morning? If you think that danger turns on and off with light, you’d be wrong.

Have you worked out the safest route to and from work and take it every day? If you have you may be putting yourself in danger.

You walk in to a bar and have a choice of where to sit. You can sit next a group of Hell’s Angels or a group of men in suits. Which is safer? The men in suits? Think again.

You are attacked from behind in the street, you do not see your attacker and there are no witnesses. Do you have any useful information you can give to the police? You have at least 2 very useful pieces of information, but if you’d read this book, you would probably have more.

Contents

Section One
Crimes and Criminals
1. Drugs
2. Mental Illness and physical disability
3. Mugging
4. Pickpocketing
5. Burglary
6. Armed Robbery
7. Assault
8. Rape and sexual assault
9. Domestic violence
10. Stalkers
11. Confidence Tricksters
12. Hostage Situations
Section Two
Danger Zones, Danger Times
1. Safe streets?
2. Bad neighborhoods?
3. Don't go out at night!
Section Three
Living Safe, Living Free
1. Assess your personal risk
2. Make friends not enemies
3. At home
4. At work
5. Doing the shopping
6. Going for a drive
7. Public transport
8. Regular journeys
9. Hitchhiking
10. Out for a drink
11. Meeting Mr. Right
12. Platonic relationships with Men
13. Away from Home
14. Paperwork and Electronic Transactions
15. For Those at Extra Risk
Section Four
1. Fighting back
2. Fight, flight or talk
3. Helping the law fight for you
4. Fighting Back and the Law
5. Personal Protection Alarms
6. Carrying a weapon?
7. Learning to fight
8. Fighting Tactics
And Finally