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    Defense Against the Psychopath
    Defense Against the Psychopath
    Defense Against the Psychopath
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    Defense Against the Psychopath

    By Stefan Verstappen

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    Of all the criminal types that inhabit our society, the psychopath is by far the most destructive, the most successful, and the least understood. For these reasons, any self-defense program must begin with a study of the most dangerous predator on the planet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStefan Verstappen
    Release dateJul 9, 2012
    ISBN9780988133617
    Defense Against the Psychopath
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    Stefan Verstappen

    Stefan H. Verstappen is a Canadian writer, adventurer, and martial artist.

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    Defense Against the Psychopath - Stefan Verstappen

    Defense Against The Psychopath

    A brief introduction to human predators

    By Stefan H. Verstappen

    Copyright © 2011 by Stefan H. Verstappen

    All rights reserved

    E Book Edition 2012

    ISBN 978-0-9881336-1-7

    Smashwords Edition

    Table of Contents

    Surviving Predators

    The Psychopath

    Common Types of Psychopaths

    The Psychopath’s Modus Operandi

    Defense Against The Psychopath

    Afterword to Defense Against the Psychopath

    Recommended Reading

    About the author

    Surviving Predators

    Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

    Bertrand Russell

    In the urban environment, criminals fulfill nature’s role of predators. While the strategies criminals use vary widely, there is an important distinction between two types of criminal, the psychopathic, and the non-psychopathic.

    The non-psychopathic criminal is the type most familiar to the public. For these criminals, crime is a survival mechanism anthropologists call the Cheating Strategy. The Cheating Strategy simply refers to the advantage cheating provides in terms of survival. For example, a person may spend eight hours a day working to earn a certain amount of money, but a thief could spend only a few minutes to gain what another spent eight hours to acquire. The thief’s cheating strategy is cost effective – the gains far exceed expenditures.

    However, man is a social animal and cheaters are seldom tolerated in a reciprocal society wherein everyone works together for common benefits and equal share in the fruits thereof. Society evolved the institution of revenge and punishment as a counter to the cheating strategy. While some question the effectiveness of punishment as deterrent, on a survival level, punishment factors into the cost/benefit analysis of those considering a cheating strategy. A thief who steals another’s wages may be acting cost effectively, but if the thief is subsequently caught and forced to serve five years in prison, he will find the costs now far exceed the

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