BACKGROUND No studies have assessed psychopathology among victims of stalking who have not sought specialist help. AIMS To examine the associations between stalking victimisation and psychiatric morbidity in a representative community sample. METHOD A random community sample (n=1844) completed surveys examining the experience of harassment and current mental health. The 28-item General Heal...

Stalking has been labelled ‘the crime of the nineties’ (e.g. Goode, 1995). Yet despite international media interest there has been surprisingly little research carried out on the phenomenon. Much of the literature that does exist takes a discursive form, focuses on the pursuit of celebrities and other public Ž gures (Dietz et al., 1991; Fein & Vossekuil, 1998) or attempts to form typologies of ...

Stalking is a common social problem, often driven by psychiatric disorder in its perpetrators and productive of psychological and social damage in its victims. Assessing and managing the risks in the stalking situation is a task that frequently falls on the mental health professional. The concerns of risks in the stalking situation are not confined to violence but include psychosocial damage, c...

The fear of violence is among the most common and debilitating concerns faced by stalking victims. This review summarizes the extant literature on stalking-related violence, highlighting risk factors unique to stalking as well as those common to most offender populations. In total, 13 published studies were found, encompassing 11 unique samples and 1,155 individuals. The overall rate of violenc...

Cyber stalking is the intimidation or threat to cause distress by blackmailing through internet.Cyber considered be a right privacy while abusing freedom of information. To discuss subject issue author has used empirical study methodology. The first part provides an explanation cyber-stalking in detail discussing its factors, classification and impacts. In second part, impacts cyber-stalking, t...

In relationships characterised by current or previous intimate partner violence (IPV), stalking is a commonly occurring phenomenon. this study, we examined police-recorded in IPV episode reports across 1150 cases to (a) consider the overlap between and stalking, relevance of aggressor victim’s relationship phase defining stalking; (b) contribute empirical evidence about prevalence rates identif...

This study investigated factors predicting the courtship stalking behavior of male college students. Data were collected from 164 male college students who were described as men who wanted to date women who did not want to date them. Participants were from either a four-year university or a two-year college located in A-city, Korea. Courtship stalking behaviors were measured using Sinclair and ...

BACKGROUND There is an almost total lack of empirical research on stalking among juveniles. AIMS To examine the characteristics, nature and impacts of stalking by juveniles. METHOD Analysis of consecutive court applications for a restraining order against a juvenile because of stalking behaviours. RESULTS A total of 299 juvenile stalkers were identified. The majority were male (64%) and t...

Stalking may be defined as repeated following, communicating, and contacting a person in a threatening manner that causes the person to fear, on a reasonable basis, for his or her safety. Stalking is a recent legal construct, and social scientific research on stalking is in an early stage. Given that the most common victim of stalking is an ex-intimate partner, there may be an association betwe...