The Toll of Stalking

The Toll of Stalking: The Relationship Between Features of Stalking and Psychopathology of Victims

The Evolution of Stalking

We propose that stalking tactics have been shaped by evolutionary processes to help solve mating problems. These include: (1) acquiring new mates, (2) guarding existing mates to prevent defection, (3) fending off mate poachers, (4) poaching someone else’s mate, (5) interfering with intrasexual competitors, (6) reacquiring ex-mates, (7) sexual exploitation and predation, and (8) guarding kin fro...

Stalking: The elusive crime

Stalking has been labelled ‘the crime of the nineties’ (e.g. Goode, 1995). Yet despite international media interest there has been surprisingly little research carried out on the phenomenon. Much of the literature that does exist takes a discursive form, focuses on the pursuit of celebrities and other public Ž gures (Dietz et al., 1991; Fein & Vossekuil, 1998) or attempts to form typologies of ...

Stalking Sustainability

Dr Simon Zadek is Chair of the international professional body for social auditing, the Institute of Social and Ethical AccountAbility, having been Development Director of the New Economics Foundation and Chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative until the end of . He is on the Steering Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative, the Operating Council of the Global Alliance for Workers and ...

Stalking influenza.

I nfluenza A virus causes seasonal flu epidemics and periodic worldwide pandemics (e.g., the 1918 Spanish flu, which caused ≈50 million deaths). The viral surface protein HA is the primary target of neutralizing Abs in natural infections (1). At any given time there are a limited number of viral strains circulating in humans, restricting widespread immunity to a small subset of potential viruse...