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 ...