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Soft Targets: A Woman's Guide to Survival

Soft Targets: A Woman's Guide to Survival

Current price: $17.80
Publication Date: October 31st, 2004
Publisher:
Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN:
9781589801981
Pages:
240

Description

"Varnado offers up truly invaluable lessons from his work on the front line of crime scene investigation."--The Midwest Book Review

Violence against women has reached epidemic proportions in America. Now, a twenty-year veteran detective shares hard-won lessons from the front line of crime scene investigation. Using actual case studies from his own career, Detective Michael L. Varnado advises women on how to avoid becoming "soft targets" for violent predators.

Soft Targets presents an array of actual crimes including breaking and entering, domestic violence, abduction from the workplace, Internet predators, and more. The fact that many of these horrific acts took place in bucolic communities only emphasizes the need for constant vigilance against crime. Detective Varnado also speaks frankly, as an insider, about the inadequacies and even negligence of our legal and law enforcement systems. For example, his face-to-face encounters with the evil within the criminal mind have convinced him that society needs the death penalty.

Soft Targets includes hotlines, Web sites, and additional resources for crime survivors, as well as self-defense tips and other crime prevention advice.