THE PSYCHOLOGY OF STALKING STALKING - This is unwanted or obsessive attention or contact by an individual or a group towards another person. Specifically, this unwanted obsessive attention is geared towards harassing and intimidating the other person. In quite a number of legal jurisdictions stalking is a criminal offence. INTRODUCTION The definition of stalking and what really constitutes stalking vary according to discipline and jurisdictions. This difficulty in having a common definition stems from the fact that psychology and psychiatry look at stalking from different perspectives. Some actions that may be construed as stalking in one legal jurisdiction maybe legal in another. For example, to gather information, sending gifts. It can be an accumulation of a series of actions which in themselves are legal such as calling on the phone or sending an email. PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR A) STALKERS Some ...
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