COMBATIVES BRAZIL · SP
REAL-WORLD
PROTECTION
UNDERSTAND VIOLENCE.
PREPARE TO RESPOND.

AWARENESS • PREVENTION • PROTECTION • RESPONSE

COMBATIVES

COMBATIVES™ · SÃO PAULO · BRAZIL

Understand violence before deciding how to respond.

 

COMBATIVESâ„¢ studies violence, behavior, prevention and protection through research, data, documented cases and practical experience.

A real-world situation involves people, environment, time, distance, surprise, vulnerabilities and decisions.

Understanding how these factors interact can help identify risk earlier and expand the options available for protection.

Response begins with understanding the problem.

PRINCIPLE

Protection begins before physical contact. Recognizing what is happening earlier can create more room to decide.

FIELD OF STUDY

Understanding context changes the response.

COMBATIVESâ„¢ examines the situation as a whole: behavior, environment, vulnerabilities, time and available options.

Data, research, documented cases and practical experience help build a clearer understanding of each problem.

From there, prevention, protection and response become part of the same analysis.

01

Violence & behavior

How violent situations begin, develop and change according to behavior, environment and circumstances.

02

Human factors under pressure

Attention, surprise, stress, perception and decision-making when time and information are limited.

03

Real incidents

Documented cases help explain what happened, under what conditions and which factors influenced the outcome.

04

Prevention & decision-making

Awareness, distance, positioning, communication, exits, seeking help and decisions appropriate to the situation.

05

Physical response

Movement, positioning and simple responses designed to create space, protect and disengage when action becomes necessary.

06

Protection & vulnerabilities

Age, mobility, environment, routine and responsibility for others all affect how protection should be approached.

HISTORY & CONTEXT

The past helps us understand the present.

Historical cases show how people dealt with violence, surprise, pressure, preparation and uncertainty across very different periods.

Methods and technologies change. Some human problems continue to appear.

Comparing different periods helps distinguish what remains useful from what only made sense within a particular historical context.

History expands context.
Context improves decisions.

REAL INCIDENTS

One case can teach. Many cases allow comparison.

An incident shows what happened to specific people, in a specific place, at a specific moment.

When dozens or hundreds of cases are studied systematically, recurring patterns, differences and limitations begin to emerge that a single experience would rarely reveal.

This is why statistics, research and serious reports matter: they provide scale to what might otherwise remain only an impression or personal experience.

01 How did the situation begin and develop?
02 What changes or vulnerabilities were present?
03 What were the limits of time, space and information?
04 Which decisions influenced the outcome?

PROTECTION

Protection is bigger than knowing how to fight.

Recognizing a change, maintaining distance, choosing an exit, seeking help or protecting another person are also forms of response.

Children, women, seniors, families and people with different physical conditions face different problems and vulnerabilities.

When there is room to decide earlier, that space has value.

Survival involves far more than winning a confrontation.

REAL-WORLD RESPONSE

When physical contact happens.

Some situations reach physical contact and require an immediate response.

Movement, distance, positioning, protection of others, close contact and simple responses are part of preparation.

The objective is to create an opportunity to protect, break contact and get out.

Space, surprise, physical condition, environment and the number of people involved all affect what is possible at any given moment.

AWARENESS · PREVENTION · PROTECTION · RESPONSE

AREAS OF STUDY

Violence changes form. So do the questions.

COMBATIVESâ„¢ research examines different problems and seeks the most appropriate references for each one.

01

Violence, offender behavior, assaults and prevention.

02

Human factors, surprise, stress, perception and decision-making.

03

Environment, homes, residential buildings, vehicles, travel and situational prevention.

04

Targeted violence, attacks, kidnappings, hostage situations and critical incidents.

05

Protection of children, women, seniors, families and people facing different forms of vulnerability.

06

Documented incidents, statistics, institutional research and the history of Combatives.

RESEARCH & REFERENCES

Cases, data and research give weight to what is claimed.

COMBATIVESâ„¢ consults Brazilian and international sources according to the subject being studied.

The focus is on what each source actually provides: data, number of cases, methodology, context, recurring patterns and limitations.

Practical experience helps generate questions. Serious research allows those experiences to be compared on a much larger scale.

Data, violence & victimization

Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security, SENASP/Sinesp, Ministry of Health, FBI Crime Data, Bureau of Justice Statistics, British, French, Spanish and other public statistical databases.

Criminal behavior & case analysis

FBI Behavioral Analysis, NCAVC and ViCAP, Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), French Gendarmerie Nationale, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and criminological research.

Threats, attacks & targeted violence

U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC), FBI, National Institute of Justice (NIJ), NPSA, Counter Terrorism Policing and other specialized references.

Children, women, seniors & families

Brazilian sources, WHO, CDC, Council of Europe, FRA, EIGE, INTERPOL and research focused on violence, abuse, exploitation and protection.

Human factors & decision-making

College of Policing and scientific literature on attention, perception, stress, human performance, communication and decision-making under pressure.

Critical incidents, history & documented experience

Law-enforcement publications, historical archives and publicly available materials from institutions and specialized units when they provide relevant context to the subject being studied.

The institutions, organizations and fields of research cited here are used exclusively as sources and study references. Their inclusion does not imply affiliation, certification, endorsement, sponsorship or any institutional relationship with COMBATIVESâ„¢.

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COMBATIVESâ„¢

Understand better. Protect better. Respond when necessary.

Violence changes according to the people, place, moment and circumstances involved.

That is why COMBATIVESâ„¢ continues to study cases, data and experiences from different countries and environments.

Knowledge becomes valuable when it helps someone understand a situation more clearly, protect another person or make a better decision.

Understand the context.
Recognize the risk.
Protect people.
Prepare to respond.

REALITY · DATA · PROTECTION

VIOLENCE TAKES DIFFERENT FORMS

Physical assault is only part of the problem. Coercion, control, neglect, exploitation, stalking, psychological abuse and sexual violence are also part of the reality. Understanding how each situation develops can help identify risk earlier and improve protection.

CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS

A disappearance requires understanding what happened

Children and adolescents may go missing under very different circumstances. Voluntary absence, family conflict, loss of contact and criminal situations are all part of this reality. The earlier the context is understood and relevant information is shared, the better the conditions for directing the search and protection efforts.

WOMEN

Violence can begin long before physical assault

Control, stalking, threats, isolation, financial pressure, psychological abuse and sexual violence may appear before or alongside physical assault. Recognizing behavioral changes and patterns of control can help clarify what is happening.

OLDER ADULTS

Dependence and access can increase vulnerability

Family members, caregivers and others may have access to an older person's home, routine, finances, medication and decisions. That access deserves attention when signs of neglect, abandonment, exploitation, control or violence begin to appear.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Risk can also exist within relationships of trust

Many situations involving sexual violence involve people who already know the victim or have access to them. Trust, proximity, dependence, authority, vulnerability and boundaries are all relevant factors in protection analysis.

19,573

children aged 0 to 11 and adolescents aged 12 to 17 registered as missing in Brazil in 2025

155,111

reports of violence against women registered through Brazil's Ligue 180 helpline in 2025

84,388

rape cases recorded by public security authorities in Brazil in 2025

22.54%

of human rights violation reports received by Brazil's Disque 100 service in 2025 involved violence against older adults

Sources: Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security / Senasp, Annual Statistical Report on Missing and Located Persons 2024–2025; Ministry of Women, Ligue 180 data for 2025; Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, Brazilian Public Safety Yearbook 2026; and Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship / National Human Rights Ombudsman's Office, 2025 Management Report. These indicators come from different databases, methodologies and units of measurement and should not be added together. Missing-person reports are not equivalent to kidnapping cases. Reports and records received by public systems do not, by themselves, represent judicially confirmed cases.

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