Stalking Crimes and Victim Protection: Prevention, Intervention, Threat Assessment, and Case Management PDF

Preface

This is a book of extreme overriding importance. As stalking cases continue to seriously increase in growing numbers in our society, an even greater responsibility is placed on those who not only assess and evaluate stalkers, but also who work to prevent, intervene, manage, and educate the victims of stalking, and who train public safety personnel and our communities on this matter of growing issue.

Emphasizing a multidisciplinary approach to dealing with stalkers and their victims, Stalking Crimes and Victim Protection: Prevention, Intervention, and Threat Assessment is a complete and comprehensive work to date. Professionals contributing to this book who are researchers, mental health clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, criminologists, sociologists, academics and university professors, security experts, investigators, and security practitioners in the field have lent their special talents and expertise to the making of this book. A much needed resource in the field, anyone who currently provides services to victims, evaluates the mental state of the stalker, investigates stalking and related cases, or who provides threat assessments or consults on security issues and safety planning can and will benefit from this book.

From the editor's experience, stalking, stalker, and victim cases are best evaluated and managed using a multidisciplinary approach. Therefore, the editor and contributing authors have ambitiously undertaken this important work with the hopeful intent to educate, inform, and raise public awareness as to this growing phenomenon. Many current changes and trends as well as cutting-edge research by nationally and internationally recognized experts on the subject are taking place in the field today in the following areas: psychology, psychiatry, and criminology of stalkers, stalking laws, statutes and anti-stalking legislation, public policy, stalking victims, victim services, stalking recognition, stalking investigation, stalker typologies and profiles, case management, use and caveats of temporary restraining orders (TROs), domestic violence and stalkers, workplace violence and stalkers, security issues and personal protection, electronic stalking, cyberstalking and the Internet, stalking prevalence on college campuses, stalking evidence and documentation, and intervention and prevention strategies, along with approaches to the assessment of potential threats of dangerousness by establishing threat assessment and risk management units.

This book provides highlights regarding several stalking and stalker case examples and analysis for clinical-forensic study and comparison. Finally, this book provides some helpful guidelines and suggestions for training purposes, as well as how to develop and establish threat assessment and case management teams for the purposes of investigating, evaluating, managing, and prosecuting stalkers and stalking cases, and for security planning, and victim assistance purposes.