Stalkers and their Victims

New edition of the definitive text on stalking, exploring research, clinical studies and changes in legal status and behaviour.

Paul E. Mullen (Author), Michele Pathé (Author), Rosemary Purcell (Author)

9780521732413, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 November 2008

334 pages
24.5 x 18.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.72 kg

'This new edition is an interesting read, a worthy contribution to the field, and provides a much needed update on the knowledge gained since the previous edition.' Doody's Book Review

Stalking has moved from being a novel area for study to become a core area of concern for mental health professionals, lawyers and other members of the criminal justice system. It has emerged as a significant social problem which not only commands considerable public attention but is now, in many jurisdictions, a specific form of criminal offence. This new edition brings the reader completely up-to-date with the explosion in published research and clinical studies in the field, and covers new issues such as cyberstalking, stalking health professionals, stalking in the workplace, female stalkers, juvenile stalkers, stalking celebrities, evaluating risk in the stalking situation, as well as exploring changes to the legal status of the behaviour. Illustrated with case studies throughout, this is the definitive guide and reference for anyone with professional, academic or other interests in this complex behaviour.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Stalking: a problem behaviour
2. Stalking as a social construction and social reality
3. The epidemiology of stalking
4. The victims of stalkers
5. Stalking typologies and classifications
6. The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker
7. The predatory stalker
8. Intimacy seekers and incompetent suitors
9. The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations
10. Stalking among juveniles
11. Female stalkers
12. Same gender stalking
13. Cyberstalking
14. Stalking by proxy
15. The law as stalker's agent
16. Stalking in the workplace
17. Stalking of health professionals
18. Stalking celebrities and other public figures
19. False victims of stalking
20. Evaluating and managing risk in the stalking situation
21. The therapeutic approach to the stalker
22. Reducing the impact of stalking on victims
23. Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH]