Beschreibung:
This volume provides new perspectives on the prevalence, causes, and effects of stalking in intimate and non-intimate relations. 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, this book 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.
Stalking and Role Relationships.- Cyberstalking.- Characteristics of Stalking Victims and Offenders.- The Impact of Stalking.- Non-Legal Responses to Stalking.- Stalking Law and Victims' Use of the Courts.- Police Intervention.- Treatment and Incarceration.