It is often a lot easier to avoid a fight if you have an
understanding of the attack ritual. As we said earlier:
understand the enemy or you are fighting in the dark. If you
know why, where and how an attack is likely to happen, it
stands to reason that the acquired knowledge will help you to
avoid such situations, or prepare for them.
There are, of course, lots of different types of attackers and
attacks. Some choose to rob, some choose to rape, whilst
others instigate gratuitous violence for no other profit than
malice. Some assailants are cold-blooded in that they
meticulously plan their attacks before they set about
executing them. Many are opportunists who will only
commit an offence if a 'safe' situation arises in their
everyday lives. Men, women and children are being attacked
indiscriminately, even in highly populated areas, where the
frightened and seemingly unsympathetic general public hide
under the veil of, 'It's nothing to do with me', or 'I don't want
to get involved.' However when you have a judicial system
that seems more in favour of the attacker than the victim this
reticence is often understandable.