J Reid Meloy, Lorraine Sheridan, Jens Hoffmann

Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures

A Psychological and Behavioral Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

Public figures require attention, whether from a constituency who votes them in or out of office, shareholders who decide their economic benefit to the corporation, or fans who judge their performances. However, on the periphery of this normal attention resides a very real risk; that of a much smaller group of individuals who lack the ability to discriminate between their own private fantasies and the figure's public behavior. They may be personally insulted by perceived betrayal, fanatically in love due to a perceived affectionate or sexual invitation, or simply preoccupied with the daily life of the public figure. Such individuals may fixate and do nothing more. Others communicate or approach in a disturbing way. A few will threaten. And on rare occasions, one will breach the public figure's security perimeter and attack. Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures is a comprehensive survey of the current knowledge about stalking, violence risk, and threat management towards public figures. With contributions from forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, clinicians, researchers, attorneys, profilers, and current and former law enforcement enforcement professionals, this book is the first of its kind, international in scope, and rich in both depth and complexity. The book is divided into three sections which, in turn, focus upon defining, explaining, and risk managing this increasingly complex global reality. Chapters include detailed case studies, analyses of quantitative data, reflections from attachment theory and psychoanalytic thought, descriptions of law enforcement and protective organization activities, mental health and psychiatric categorizations and understandings, consideration of risk assessment models and variables, victim perspectives, and others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780195326383
• ISBN-10: 0195326385
• Artikelnr.: 23539715

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword: Robert Fein and Bryan Vossekuil
* 1: J. Reid Meloy, Lorraine Sheridan, Jens Hoffmann: Public Figures
Stalking: The State of the Science
* Section I: Defining the Risk
* 2: J. Reid Meloy, Kris Mohandie, Mila Green McGowan: A Forensic
Investigation of Those Who Stalk Celebrities
* 3: Paul E. Mullen, David V. James, J. Reid Meloy, Michele T. Pathe,
Frank R. Farnham, Lulu Preston, Brian Darnley: The Role of Psychotic
Illness in Attacks on Public Figures
* 4: Louis B. Schlesinger, V. Blair Mesa: Homicidal Celebrity Stalkers:
Dangerous Obsessions with Nonpolitical Public Figures
* 5: Frederick S. Calhoun, Stephen W. Weston: On Public Figure Howlers
* 6: Jens Hoffmann, Lorraine Sheridan: Stalking, Threatening and
Attacking Corporate Figures
* 7: James Biesterfeld, J. Reid Meloy: The Public Figure Assassin as
Terrorist
* Section II: Explaining the Risk
* 8: Jens Hoffmann, J. Reid Meloy: Contributions from Attachment Theory
and Pschoanalysis to Advance Understanding of Public Figure Stalking
and Attacking
* 9: Jens Hoffmann, Lorraine Sheridan: Celebrities as Victims of
Stalking
* 10: Mary Ellen O'Toole, Sharon S. Smith, Robert D. Hare: Psychopathy
and Predatory Stalking of Public Figures
* 11: J. Reid Meloy, Kris Mohandie: Two Case Studies of
Corporate-Celebrity Victims: The Stalking of Steven Spielberg and
Stephen Wynn
* 12: John Maltby, David Giles: Toward the Measurement and Profiling of
Celebrity Worship
* 13: Brian H. Spitzberg, William R. Cupach: Fanning the Flames of
Fandom: Celebrity Worship, Parasocial Interaction, and Stalking
* Section III: Managing the Risk
* 14: Jeff Dunn: Operations of the LAPD Threat Management Unit
* 15: P. Randall Kropp, Stephen D. Hart, David R. Lyon: Risk Assessment
of Public Figure Stalkers
* 16: Robert T.M. Phillips: Preventing Assassination: Psychiatric
Consultation to the United States Secret Service
* 17: Karl Roberts: Offender Profiling and Celebrity Stalking Cases
* 18: Rhonda Saunders, Sean Wainwright: Prosecuting Celebrity Stalkers
* 19: Mario J. Scalora, William Zimmerman, David G. Wells: Use of
Threat Assessment for the Protection of the United States Congress
* 20: Sharon S. Smith: From Violent Words to Violent Deeds: Assessing
Risk from FBI Threating Communication Cases
* Index