Paul E. Mullen (Victoria Monash University), Michele Pathe, Rosemary Purcell (University of Melbourne)

Stalkers and their Victims

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition brings the reader up-to-date with the explosion in published research and clinical studies, and covers new issues such as cyberstalking, stalking health professionals, stalking in the workplace, female stalkers, juvenile stalkers, stalking celebrities, as well as exploring changes to the legal status of the behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780521732413
• ISBN-10: 0521732417
• Artikelnr.: 23882182

Autorenporträt

Paul E. Mullen is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Monash University, Victoria and Clinical Director at the Victorian Institute of Mental Health, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Stalking: a problem behaviour
2. Stalking as a social construction and social reality
3. The epidemiology of stalking
4. The victims of stalkers
5. Stalking typologies and classifications
6. The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker
7. The predatory stalker
8. Intimacy seekers and incompetent suitors
9. The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations
10. Stalking among juveniles
11. Female stalkers
12. Same gender stalking
13. Cyberstalking
14. Stalking by proxy
15. The law as stalker's agent
16. Stalking in the workplace
17. Stalking of health professionals
18. Stalking celebrities and other public figures
19. False victims of stalking
20. Evaluating and managing risk in the stalking situation
21. The therapeutic approach to the stalker
22. Reducing the impact of stalking on victims
23. Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking
References
Index.