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Stalkers and their victims / Paul E. Mullen, Michele Pathé, and Rosemary Purcell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mullen, Paul E., author.
- Pathé, Michele, 1959- author.
- Purcell, Rosemary, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stalking.
- Stalkers.
- Women--Crimes against--Prevention.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Stalkers & their Victims
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Stalking is now a major social and legal issue, as well as a clinical problem for mental health professionals. This absorbing and informative book draws on the authors' extensive experience of working with stalkers and their victims in the clinical setting. Topics covered include: • The growing recognition of stalking as an issue of public, legal and scientific concern • The definition, classification and epidemiology of stalking • The impact on victims, and how this may be reduced • Same-gender stalking, stalking by proxy, workplace stalking, and the stalking of professionals, such as doctors and teachers • The association of stalking with physical and sexual assault • Anti-stalking laws internationally • Support and practical advice for victims • Assessing and managing the stalker With many case histories, and an approach that is at once scholarly and highly practical, this will be the definitive guide and reference for anyone with a professional or academic interest in this complex behaviour.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Stalking - a new categorization of human behaviour
- Defining stalking
- Stalking as popular, legal and scientific discourses
- The archaeology of stalking
- The social construction of stalking
- Conclusions
- The epidemiology of stalking
- The prevalence of stalking
- Summary
- The victims of stalkers
- Victim studies
- Typology of stalking victims
- Ex-intimates
- Casual acquaintances and friends
- Professional contacts
- Workplace contacts
- Strangers
- The famous
- Unusual victims
- The impact of stalking on victims
- Classifying stalkers
- Classifying stalking as a form of domestic violence
- Erotomanics, love obsessionals and simple obsessionals
- Some other classifications
- Classification employed in this book
- The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker
- The rejected stalker
- Clinical features
- Relationship to other classifications
- Personality characteristics
- Jealousy
- Characteristics and management of the rejected
- The resentful stalker
- The nature of resentment
- Characteristics and management
- The predatory stalker
- Clinical characteristics
- Stalking in paraphilias
- Telephone scatologia
- Exhibitionism
- Fetishism, voyeurism
- Paedophilia/hebephilia
- Sexual masochism and sadism
- Paraphilic asphyxia (asphyxiophilia)
- Management of the predatory stalker
- Intimacy seekers and incompetent suitors
- Intimacy seekers
- Management
- Incompetent suitors
- Intimacy seekers versus incompetent suitors
- The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations
- A history of erotomania.
- Pathologies of love
- Pathological beliefs of being loved (erotomania)
- Pathological infatuations (borderline erotomania)
- Primary and symptomatic forms of erotomania
- The object of affection
- Prevalence
- Management and prognosis
- Same gender stalking
- Media reports of same gender stalking
- Case reports of same gender erotomania
- Studies of stalkers and stalking victims
- Victims of same gender stalking
- Stalking by proxy
- Private detectives
- Ordering or cancelling goods and services
- Friends and family
- The criminal justice system
- The medical profession
- The Church
- Real-estate agents
- Psychics
- Motor-vehicles
- The media
- The Internet
- False victims of stalking
- Typology of false stalking victims
- Stalkers who claim to be victims
- Delusions of being stalked
- The previously stalked
- The factitious disorder
- The malingerer
- Assessment and management of false stalking victims
- Stalking and assault
- Erotomania and assault
- Female harassment and assault
- Attacks on pets
- Homicidal behaviour and stalking
- Risk factors and risk management
- Reducing the impact of stalking
- Preventative approaches
- Recognising the would-be stalker
- Declining and terminating relationships
- Protecting personal information
- Celebrity victims
- Strategies to combat stalking
- Informing others
- Helping agencies
- Avoiding contact and confrontations
- Documentation
- Telephone harassment
- Restraining orders
- Self-defence training
- Workplace practices
- Other security measures
- Clinical management of stalking victims
- Education and supportive counselling
- Cognitive-behavioural approaches
- Pharmacotherapies
- Family/partner therapies.
- Group therapies
- Support organizations for stalking victims
- Associated issues in treatment
- Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking
- Early attempts to prosecute stalking-related behaviours
- The development of anti-stalking legislation
- The act
- The threat
- The intent
- Other elements
- Stalking statutes in other US states and Canada
- Florida
- Illinois
- Michigan
- West Virginia
- Canada
- The constitutionality of anti-stalking laws in the USA
- The model anti-stalking code for American states
- North American anti-stalking laws: a summary
- Australian anti-stalking legislation
- Conduct requirements
- Intention
- The response of the victim
- Penalties
- Exemptions or defences against a charge
- Special provisions
- Summary of Australian anti-stalking legislation
- The United Kingdom: the Protection from Harassment Act
- The prosecution of stalking: summary and conclusions
- Assessing and managing the stalker
- Assessment
- Management of any continuing mental disorder
- Management strategies targeted at the stalking behaviours
- Appendix A: Victim services
- Appendix B: Important anti-stalking Acts/statutes
- Legal cases and references
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-00589-X
- 1-139-10686-4
- OCLC:
- 49414770
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