Stalkers and their Victims

Paul E. Mullen is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Monash University, Victoria and Clinical Director at the Victorian Institute of Mental Health, Australia. Michele Pathé is Director, Threat Management and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health and Honororary Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Rosemary Purcell is Forensic Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

From reviews of the first edition: 'Stalkers and their Victims is a brilliant fusion of cutting-edge scientific research and riveting clinical account. Written with genuine eloquence, argued with unfailing insight, and suffused with compassion, the book ups the ante on all future work on stalking. An extraordinary scholarly accomplishment of both international and enduring significance.' John Monahan, University of Virginia

• Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Stalking: a problem behaviour; 2. Stalking as a social construction and social reality; 3. The epidemiology of stalking; 4. The victims of stalkers; 5. Stalking typologies and classifications; 6. The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker; 7. The predatory stalker; 8. Intimacy seekers and incompetent suitors; 9. The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations; 10. Stalking among juveniles; 11. Female stalkers; 12. Same gender stalking; 13. Cyberstalking; 14. Stalking by proxy; 15. The law as stalker's agent; 16. Stalking in the workplace; 17. Stalking of health professionals; 18. Stalking celebrities and other public figures; 19. False victims of stalking; 20. Evaluating and managing risk in the stalking situation; 21. The therapeutic approach to the stalker; 22. Reducing the impact of stalking on victims; 23. Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking; References; Index.