Stalking and Violence: New Patterns of Trauma and Obsession

• Main Author: Morewitz, Stephen J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2003.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Criminology.; Clinical psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Law and Psychology.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.