Research Catalog

Title

Stalkers and their victims / Paul E. Mullen, Michele Pathé, Rosemary Purcell.

Author

Mullen, Paul E.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Pathé, Michele, 1959-
• Purcell, Rosemary, 1969-

Description

ix, 323 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Stalking
• Stalkers
• Women > Prevention
• Obsessive Behavior > psychology
• Crime > prevention & control
• Crime Victims > psychology
• Social Behavior Disorders > psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-312) and index.

Contents

Stalking : a problem behaviour -- Stalking as a social construction and social reality -- The epidemiology of stalking -- The victims of stalkers -- Stalking typologies and classifications -- The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker -- The intimacy seeker and the incompetent suitor -- The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations -- The predatory stalker -- Stalking among juveniles -- Female stalkers -- Same-gender stalking -- Cyberstalking -- Stalking by proxy -- The law as stalker's agent -- Stalking in the workplace -- Stalking of health professionals -- Stalking celebrities and other public figures -- False victims of stalking -- Evaluating and managing risk in the stalking situation -- The therapeutic approach to the stalker -- Reducing the impact of stalking on victims -- Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking.

ISBN

• 9780521732413 (pbk)
• 0521732417 (pbk)

LCCN

• 2008018224
• 99933316202

OCLC

• ocn226279639
• 226279639
• SCSB-5464710

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries