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Stalking Risk Assessment
| العنوان: | Stalking Risk Assessment |
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| المؤلفون: | Resnick, Phillip J. |
| المصدر: | Stalking ; ISBN 9780195189841 9780197562383 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| الوصف: | This chapter examines the frequency of recidivism, threats, and violence in male and female stalkers. The risk factors associated with ordinary violence are distinguished from the risk factors for severe violence and homicide in stalkers. Common risk factors for ordinary violence among stalkers include substance abuse, prior criminal offenses, making threats, suicidality, and a prior intimate relationship to the stalking victim. Risk factors for stalkers committing severe violence or homicide include appearing at the victim’s home, prior violence, major depression, threats to harm the victim’s children, and placing threatening messages on the victim’s car. Celebrity stalkers have a different set of risk factors for violence. Distinctions are made between those stalkers who make threats and those who pose threats, and between affective and predatory violence by stalkers. The overlap between domestic violence and stalking is explained. An approach to evaluating stalking situations for dangerousness is offered. Increased vigilance is necessary when events humiliate or anger the stalker. Finally, the chapter discusses how to assess threats by stalkers and when to consider seeking restraining orders. Stalking and violence are two separate phenomena, but they often occur together. Because stalking is defined as a pattern of harassment that induces fear of harm in the victim, it is not surprising that some stalking victims are indeed violently assaulted by their stalkers (Meloy, 2002). The science of assessing stalkers for violence risk is still in its infancy. Because stalking has been defined as a crime for only the last approximately 15 years, a limited number of research studies regarding stalking and violence have been completed. The majority of early studies were based on referrals to court psychiatric clinics. These studies had an overrepresentation of subjects with mental illness and were more often serious cases than random stalking in the community. Of the adult participants in the National Violence Against ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book part |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-19-518984-1 978-0-19-756238-3 0-19-518984-1 0-19-756238-8 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780195189841.003.0010 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195189841.003.0010 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.A871342E |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780195189841 9780197562383 0195189841 0197562388 |
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| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780195189841.003.0010 |