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Don't Fight Back: And 10 Other Myths about Crime, Personal Safety, and Gender-Based Violence
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Series: Myths Made in America
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ISBN10: 0807016241
ISBN13: 9780807016244
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780807016244
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
From a nationally recognized violence-prevention expert, an accessible guide that debunks the most pervasive myths about crime and offers evidence-based strategies that make us safer A specific image of violence and how to avoid it lives in a lot of our imaginations. What some of us fear most is shaped not by the strongest evidence but by the most viral horror stories. Meg Stone, a violence prevention expert, traces the origins of these myths and how they are used to scare us into submission. While political leaders and social-media influencers use myths about crime to divide us, this book equips readers with facts and concrete action steps. Stone breaks down these myths into four parts:
- How Attackers Behave: what the research shows about whether fighting back makes attackers more angry
- What (or Who) to Fear a treatise on the impact of media inaccurately reporting a crime wave
- What You Should Never Do including the myth that an attacker could grab your ponytail--very unlikely!
- What You Should Always Do should you really always trust your intuition?
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