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At what point does following a person, or trying to intimidate him or her into accepting one's advances, become """"stalking""""? How is stalking related to gender? Who is the stalker? What are the long-term effects of stalking? These are among the many issues explored in this groundbreaking empirical investigation. This book based on two special issues of the journal """"Violence & Victims"""" presents in-depth findings on both victim and perpetrator, and includes a new understanding of the categories of stalking behavior: simple obsessional, love obsessional, and erotomaniac.

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Here is the latest word in scholarship on stalkers and those they terrify... a mandatory reading for anyone wanting to stay ahead of the curve on the flourishing clinical and legal literature about this worldwide and vexing problem. - John Monahan, PhD Doherty Professor of Law, University of Virginia

""Here is the latest word in scholarship on stalkers and those they terrify... a mandatory reading for anyone wanting to stay ahead of the curve on the flourishing clinical and legal literature about this worldwide and vexing problem."" - John Monahan, PhD Doherty Professor of Law, University of Virginia""

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Keith Davis, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and former chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He earned his PhD in social-personality psychology at Duke University in 1962, and has taught at Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 9), The American Psychological Society, and a recent winner of the University's Educational Foundation Award for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. He was a founding associate editor of Personal Relationships. His contributions include the foundation of attribution theory, the application of attachment theory to adult romantic relationships, the development of friendship and love relationships, and more recently, the predictors and consequences of psychological abuse and stalking. He is the author or co-author of more than 95 articles, books, and book chapters.

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