Stalking: The elusive crime
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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 gures (Dietz et al., 1991; Fein & Vossekuil, 1998) or attempts to form typologies of stalkers and/or their victims (see Zona, Palarea, & Lane, 1998, for a brief review), or concentrates on small and possibly unrepresentative clinical and court samples. The media coverage of stalking means that anecdotal and sensationalist accounts are far more prevalent than systematic investigations. It is widely recognized that stalking is a signi cant social problem, yet there is no agreed de nition of what constitutes stalking, nor is it clear who the stalkers or their victims are likely to be. The exact extent of the problem is unclear, as are stalking motives. Despite this, a number of countries, including Britain, have initiated anti-stalking legislation, attempting to deal with an essentially unknown quantity. This article aims to review several issues associated with stalking, all of which centre around the problem of de ning the crime. First, an attempt is made to show
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