The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of cyberstalking victimization, characteristics of victims and offenders, and the impact of cyberstalking on the victims' well-being and mental health. An online survey of 6,379 participants was carried out, involving users of the German social network StudiVZ. Subjective mental health status was assessed with the WHO-5 well-being index. The...

talking is a new crime but an old behavior. For as Racine wrote in 1667 "The heart that no longer loves passionately, must with fury hate". (Androsmache, I. Trans. Robert Henderson). Stalking refers to repeated unwanted attempts to contact or communicate with the object of attention. Forensic psychiatry has given sparse attention to the phenomenon of stalking and is an area of psychiatry that i...

Stalking and intimate partner abuse (IPA) are two criminal problems that often come to the attention of the police. While there are many similarities between intimate partner stalking and IPA and many refer to intimate partner stalking as a variant of IPA (Logan, Leukefeld, and Walker, 2000), there may be differences in these cases, particularly at the point that they come to the attention of t...

When a person is stalked, a common reaction is to consult an expert for the answers to several key questions: Is the stalker dangerous? How can I get the stalker to stop the behavior? What should I do to protect myself? Although certain risk factors are associated with an increased likelihood of violence, care must be taken in using risk factors to predict violence, because there are many excep...

The ‘just world hypothesis’ is often used to explain victim blame attribution in assault cases, while dark personality traits are known predict victim-blaming attitudes sexual harassment situations, but little work has empirically tested these hypotheses within the context of stalking perpetration. Research investigating perceptions toward also scarce Asia region. This study examined whether pr...

It is proposed that healthcare professionals are prone to be stalked by their patients, but many feel ashamed talk about it, believing they might have done something warrant the stalking. We undertook a rigorous review of literature with primitive goal highlighting noteworthy issues on stalking and psychologists patients. Databases such as PubMed Google Scholar were searched collate articles st...