Stalking and violence : new patterns of trauma and obsession / Stephen J. Morewitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morewitz, Stephen John, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stalking--United States.

Stalking.

Stalkers--United States--Psychology.

Stalkers.

Stalking victims--United States.

Stalking victims.

Psychology.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 150 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

Stalking and Violence: New Patterns of Trauma and Obsession provides new perspectives on the prevalence, causes, and effects of stalking in intimate and nonintimate relations. Drawing on the results of a large random survey of restraining orders, the author found that stalking is highly prevalent in a variety of relationships and is a pattern of behaviors that is routinely regulated by the demographic and social characteristics of the victims and offenders. This book demonstrates that it is possible to develop reliable stalker profiles to help better detect and respond to the threat of stalking. These findings differ from previous studies that considered stalking limited to severely disturbed persons. Covering a wide range of topics from offender profiling, the dangers of stalking, cyberstalking, traumatic health effects, and the responses of the police and courts to stalking, Stalking and Violence will be relevant to a wide range of professionals and students in the fields of mental health, criminal justice, law, social work, medicine, nursing, public health, security/safety, and Internet technology.

Contents:

1. Stalking and Role Relationships 1

2. Cyberstalking: Child and Adult Victims 11

3. Characteristics of Stalking Victims and Offenders 27

4. The Impact of Stalking 39

5. Non-Legal Responses to Stalking 47

6. Stalking Law and Victims' Use of the Courts 57

7. Police Intervention 79

8. Treatment and Incarceration 97.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.

ISBN:

0306473658

OCLC:

50243034