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Provides multidisciplinary coverage of stalking behavior worldwide from both academic and practical approaches Psycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behavior: The International Perspective is a thorough, up-to-date overview of stalking perpetration and victimization in different regions of the world. This authoritative book brings together contributions from a team of leading scholars and practitioners that discuss a diverse range of interrelated topics and issues relevant to stalking and intrusive behavior from both theoretical and practical contexts. Whereas most of the literature on the subject is written from a Western viewpoint, this unique volume examines empirical research, pol...
PROVIDES AN AUTHORITATIVE OVERVIEW OF STALKING BEHAVIOR PERPETRATED BY PARENTS AND ITS IMPACTS ON CHILDREN Stalking targeted at one of the child’s parents by the other poses a major psychosocial and physical threat to children’s wellbeing and security. Although interdisciplinary research on stalking has expanded in recent decades, intimate partner/ex-partner stalking has been viewed as an “adults only” problem. Ex-Partner Stalking and Children brings together scholars and practitioners from different disciplines in the field to examine ex-partner stalking as a psychosocial and criminological issue in children’s and young people’s lives. Providing both theoretical and practical pe...
The recent increased focus on high profile stalking cases has ledto the raising of public awareness and professional concern,however, only recently has there been substantial scientificresearch into the area. Stalking and Psychosexual Obsession represents a showcase ofcontemporary research and theory never before assembled in onebook. The contributions which are drawn from the diverse spheres ofpsychology, psychiatry, the police and the law provide acomprehensive picture of what is currently known aboutstalking. Each of the chapters not only takes stock of existing research, butprovides ground-breaking new insights. Among the topics covered arevictimology, violence risk assessment and case management issuesand a new stalker classificatory system is presented which offersadvice on how to identify different types of stalkers withdifferent intervention strategies being suggested for eachcase. * A comprehensive, global showcase of contemporary thought, ideas,research and practice * An international team of expert contributors from diversebackgrounds, including, psychology, psychiatry, police and the law
This book addresses domestic abuse and stalking among young people in the UK and Ireland, with a focus on intersectionality and lifestyle settings. In partnership with the Alice Ruggles Trust, this book draws on a wealth of expert contributions including those with lived experience, frontline services such as Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service, charities EmilyTest and Hollie Gazzard Trust, researchers of so-called honour-based abuse and online harms, and forensic psychologists who work with people who stalk. It begins with an overview of ways to recognise harmful behaviours, including those carried out online. The discussion then moves on to methods and motivations of stalking and co...
With the report of the 16th meeting, 1894, was issued "The secretary's official report of the special meeting ... Chicago, 1893," containing a résumé of the reports of meetings from 1876 to 1892.
Public figures require attention, whether from a constituency who votes them in or out of office, shareholders who decide their economic benefit to the corporation, or fans who judge their performances. However, on the periphery of this normal attention resides a very real risk; that of a much smaller group of individuals who lack the ability to discriminate between their own private fantasies and the figure's public behavior. They may be personally insulted by perceived betrayal, fanatically in love due to a perceived affectionate or sexual invitation, or simply preoccupied with the daily life of the public figure. Such individuals may fixate and do nothing more. Others communicate or appro...