Stalking: Perspectives on Victims and Perpetrators [Hardcover]

Keith E. Davis (Author), Irene Hanson Frieze (Author), Roland D. Maiuro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0826115357 | ISBN-13: 978-0826115355 | Edition: 1

"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

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 erotomanic.

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About the Author

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.

Irene Hanson Frieze, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her PhD in Personality Psychology from UCLA in 1973. She is a former president of the Psychology of Women division [Division 35] of the American Psychological Association. She is Editor of the "Journal of Social Issues" and a former Associate Editor of "Violence and Victims." She is the author or co-author of over 150 books, journal articles, and book chapters. Dr. Frieze has been researching violence in close relationships for nearly 30 years, looking at battered women, violence in marriage, dating violence, and most recently, stalking.

Roland D. Maiuro, PhD, is the Director of the Anger Management Domestic Violence, and Workplace Conflict Programs located at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Maiuro has received the Social Issues Award from the Washington State Psychological Association for his research on domestically violent men, and the Gold Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association for program development, teaching and applied research in the areas of anger and interpersonal violence. Dr. Maiuro currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for Violence and Victims, an internationally distributed research journal devoted to theory, practice, and public policy related to perpetrators and victims of interpersonal violence.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (December 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826115357
• ISBN-13: 978-0826115355
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,540,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)