Stalkers and their Victims
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2000
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-66950-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-66950-4 (ISBN)
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This highly practical, informative book draws on the authors' extensive experience of working with stalkers and their victims in the psychiatric setting. Ranging from classification of stalking to clinical and legal issues, this will be the definitive guide for anyone with a professional or academic interest in this complex behaviour.
Stalking is now a major social and legal issue, as well as a clinical problem for mental health professionals. This absorbing and informative book draws on the authors' extensive experience of working with stalkers and their victims in the clinical setting. Topics covered include: • The growing recognition of stalking as an issue of public, legal and scientific concern • The definition, classification and epidemiology of stalking • The impact on victims, and how this may be reduced • Same-gender stalking, stalking by proxy, workplace stalking, and the stalking of professionals, such as doctors and teachers • The association of stalking with physical and sexual assault • Anti-stalking laws internationally • Support and practical advice for victims • Assessing and managing the stalker With many case histories, and an approach that is at once scholarly and highly practical, this will be the definitive guide and reference for anyone with a professional or academic interest in this complex behaviour.
Stalking is now a major social and legal issue, as well as a clinical problem for mental health professionals. This absorbing and informative book draws on the authors' extensive experience of working with stalkers and their victims in the clinical setting. Topics covered include: • The growing recognition of stalking as an issue of public, legal and scientific concern • The definition, classification and epidemiology of stalking • The impact on victims, and how this may be reduced • Same-gender stalking, stalking by proxy, workplace stalking, and the stalking of professionals, such as doctors and teachers • The association of stalking with physical and sexual assault • Anti-stalking laws internationally • Support and practical advice for victims • Assessing and managing the stalker With many case histories, and an approach that is at once scholarly and highly practical, this will be the definitive guide and reference for anyone with a professional or academic interest in this complex behaviour.
Introduction; 1. Stalking - a new categorisation of human behaviour; 2. The epidemiology of stalking; 3. The victims of stalkers; 4. Classifying stalkers; 5. The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker; 6. The predatory stalker; 7. Intimacy seekers and incompetent suitors; 8. The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations; 9. Same gender stalking; 10. Stalking by proxy; 11. False victims of stalking; 12. Stalking and assault; 13. Reducing the impact of stalking; 14. Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking; 15. Assessing and managing the stalker; Conclusions; Appendix; References; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.4.2000 |
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Zusatzinfo | 11 Tables, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 176 x 247 mm |
Gewicht | 684 g |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-66950-2 / 0521669502 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-66950-4 / 9780521669504 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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