Stalking and Violence: New Patterns of Obsession and Trauma provides new perspectives on the prevalence, causes, and effects of stalking in intimate and non-intimate relations. Drawing on the results of a large random survey of restraining orders, this book 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, 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.

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Book Title: Stalking and Violence
Book Subtitle: New Patterns of Trauma and Obsession
Authors: Stephen J. Morewitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b105381
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47365-4Published: 31 December 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7816-8Published: 20 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47943-4Published: 08 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 150
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Law and Psychology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general

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