Stalking, the Glossary
Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person.[1]
Table of Contents
161 relations: Abusive power and control, Academic Press, Adjustment disorder, Al Jazeera English, American Psychiatric Association, Antisocial personality disorder, Attachment theory, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Australian Institute of Criminology, Behavioral addiction, Blame, Borderline personality disorder, Breakup, British Journal of Psychiatry, British royal family, Bullying, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Child sexual abuse, Clery Act, Code pénal (France), Courtship disorder, CRC Press, Crime, Criminal Code (Canada), Criminal Code of Russia, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, Curiosity killed the cat, Cyberstalking, David Cameron, Delict (Scots law), Delusion, Delusional disorder, Denial, Department of motor vehicles, Driver's Privacy Protection Act, Ed Royce (politician), Electronic Privacy Information Center, Elsevier, Employment, Engagement, England and Wales, Entitlement (psychology), Erotomania, Espionage, Estimates of sexual violence, Fixated Threat Assessment Centre, Fixation (psychology), ... Expand index (111 more) »
- Inchoate offenses
Abusive power and control
Abusive power and control (also controlling behavior and coercive control) is behavior used by an abusive person to gain and/or maintain control over another person. Stalking and abusive power and control are abuse.
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Academic Press
Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941.
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Adjustment disorder
Adjustment disorder is a maladaptive response to a psychosocial stressor.
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Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.
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American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world.
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Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or APD), sometimes referred to as dissocial personality disorder, is a personality disorder characterized by a limited capacity for empathy and a long-term pattern of disregard for or violation of the rights of others.
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Attachment theory
An attachment theory is a psychological and evolutionary theory concerning relationships between humans.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Psychiatry.
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Australian Institute of Criminology
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and criminal justice.
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Behavioral addiction
Behavioral addiction, process addiction, or non-substance-related disorder is a form of addiction that involves a compulsion to engage in a rewarding non-substance-related behavior – sometimes called a natural reward – despite any negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social or financial well-being.
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Blame
Blame is the act of censuring, holding responsible, or making negative statements about an individual or group that their actions or inaction are socially or morally irresponsible, the opposite of praise.
Borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive, long-term pattern of significant interpersonal relationship instability, a distorted sense of self, and intense emotional responses.
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Breakup
A relationship breakup, breakup, or break-up is the ending of a relationship.
British Journal of Psychiatry
The British Journal of Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering all branches of psychiatry with a particular emphasis on the clinical aspects of each topic.
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British royal family
The British royal family comprises King Charles III and his close relations.
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Bullying
Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. Stalking and Bullying are abuse, Aggression and harassment and bullying.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (UJC) of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime, criminal victimization, criminal offenders, victims of crime, correlates of crime, and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charte canadienne des droits et libertés), often simply referred to as the Charter in Canada, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, forming the first part of the Constitution Act, 1982.
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Child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.
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Clery Act
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act or Clery Act, signed in 1990, is a federal statute codified at, with implementing regulations in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations at.
Code pénal (France)
The Code pénal is the codification of French criminal law (droit pénal).
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Courtship disorder
Courtship disorder is a theoretical construct in sexology developed by Kurt Freund in which a certain set of paraphilias are seen as specific instances of anomalous courtship instincts in humans.
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CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.
Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
Criminal Code (Canada)
The Criminal Code (Code criminel) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.
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Criminal Code of Russia
The Russian Criminal Code (Уголовный кодекс Российской Федерации, frequently abbreviated УК РФ) is the prime source of the Law of the Russian Federation concerning criminal offences.
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Criminal Justice and Behavior
Criminal Justice and Behavior is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the fields of psychology and criminology.
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Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 (Nirbhaya Act) is an Indian legislation passed by the Lok Sabha on 19 March 2013, and by the Rajya Sabha on 21 March 2013, which provides for amendment of Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act, and Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 on laws related to sexual offences.
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Curiosity killed the cat
"Curiosity killed the cat" is a proverb used to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation or experimentation.
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Cyberstalking
Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization.
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David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, and as UK Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from November 2023 to July 2024.
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Delict (Scots law)
Delict in Scots law is the area of law concerned with those civil wrongs which are actionable before the Scottish courts.
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Delusion
A delusion is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence.
Delusional disorder
Delusional disorder, traditionally synonymous with paranoia, is a mental illness in which a person has delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect.
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Denial
Denial, in ordinary English usage, has at least three meanings: asserting that any particular statement or allegation is not true (which might be accurate or inaccurate); the refusal of a request; and asserting that a true statement is not true.
Department of motor vehicles
A department of motor vehicles (DMV) is a government agency that administers motor vehicle registration and driver licensing.
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Driver's Privacy Protection Act
The Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (also referred to as the "DPPA"), Title XXX of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, is a United States federal statute governing the privacy and disclosure of personal information gathered by state Departments of Motor Vehicles.
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Ed Royce (politician)
Edward Randall Royce (born October 12, 1951) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California from 1993 to 2019.
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Electronic Privacy Information Center
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is an independent nonprofit research center established in 1994 to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.
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Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.
Engagement
An engagement or betrothal is the period of time between the declaration of acceptance of a marriage proposal and the marriage itself (which is typically but not always commenced with a wedding).
England and Wales
England and Wales is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
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Entitlement (psychology)
In psychology, entitlement mentality is defined as a sense of deservingness or being owed a favor when little or nothing has been done to deserve special treatment.
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Erotomania
Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's syndrome, is a relatively uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them.
Espionage
Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence).
Estimates of sexual violence
Surveys of victims of crime have been undertaken in many cities and countries, using a common methodology to aid comparability, and have generally included questions on sexual violence.
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Fixated Threat Assessment Centre
The Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (FTAC) is a UK police/mental health unit, whose function is to manage the risk to public figures from stalkers and individuals who are fixated on high profile public figures or prominent protected sites.
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Fixation (psychology)
Fixation (Fixierung) is a concept (in human psychology) that was originated by Sigmund Freud (1905) to denote the persistence of anachronistic sexual traits.
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Freedom of association
Freedom of association encompasses both an individual's right to join or leave groups voluntarily, the right of the group to take collective action to pursue the interests of its members, and the right of an association to accept or decline membership based on certain criteria.
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Gang stalking
Gang stalking or group-stalking is a set of persecutory beliefs in which those affected believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large number of people.
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Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a colloquialism, defined as manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality.
Glossary of anime and manga
The following is a glossary of terms that are specific to anime and manga.
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Harassment
Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of offensive nature. Stalking and Harassment are abuse and harassment and bullying.
Harassment in the United Kingdom
Harassment is a topic which, in the past few decades, has been taken increasingly seriously in the United Kingdom, and has been the subject of a number of pieces of legislation. Stalking and Harassment in the United Kingdom are harassment and bullying.
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High Court of Justiciary
The High Court of Justiciary (Àrd-chùirt a' Cheartais) is the supreme criminal court in Scotland.
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Home Office
The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
Homicide Studies
Homicide Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of homicide.
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Hybrid offence
A hybrid offence, dual offence, Crown option offence, dual procedure offence, offence triable either way, or wobbler is one of the special class offences in the common law jurisdictions where the case may be prosecuted either summarily or on indictment.
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Indian Penal Code
The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was the official criminal code in the Republic of India, inherited from British India after independence, until it was repealed and replaced by Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in December 2023, which came into effect on 1 July 2024.
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Indictable offence
In many common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury (in contrast to a summary offence).
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Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing immediate transmission of messages over the Internet or another computer network.
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Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves emotional or physical closeness between people and may include sexual intimacy and feelings of romance or love.
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Intimidation
Intimidation is a behaviour and legal wrong which usually involves deterring or coercing an individual by threat of violence. Stalking and Intimidation are harassment and bullying.
Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe opposing violence against women and domestic violence which was opened for signature on 11 May 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jealousy
Jealousy generally refers to the thoughts or feelings of insecurity, fear, and concern over a relative lack of possessions or safety.
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from Latin juris 'law' + dictio 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice.
Kiwi Farms
Kiwi Farms, formerly known as CWCki Forums, is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities.
Law of the Netherlands
The Netherlands uses civil law.
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LexisNexis
LexisNexis is an American data analytics company headquartered in New York, New York.
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
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Malicious Communications Act 1988
The Malicious Communications Act 1988 (MCA) is a British Act of Parliament that makes it illegal in England and Wales to "send or deliver letters or other articles for the purpose of causing distress or anxiety".
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Malingering
Malingering is the fabrication, feigning, or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms designed to achieve a desired outcome, such as personal gain, relief from duty or work, avoiding arrest, receiving medication, and mitigating prison sentencing.
Mannheim
Mannheim (Palatine German: Mannem or Monnem), officially the University City of Mannheim (Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 21st-largest city, with a 2021 population of 311,831 inhabitants.
Metropolitan Police
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly known as the Metropolitan Police, which is still its common name, serves as the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.
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Minimisation (psychology)
Minimisation or minimization is a type of deceptionGuerrero, L., Anderson, P., Afifi, W. (2007).
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Minor (law)
In law, a minor is someone under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which demarcates an underage individual from legal adulthood.
Misdemeanor
A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour elsewhere) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems.
Murder of Shiori Ino
was a 21-year-old Japanese student who was murdered in Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, on 26 October 1999.
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Narcissistic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings.
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National Center for Victims of Crime
The National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information, resources, and advocacy for victims of all types of crime, as well as the people who serve them.
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Neurosis
Neurosis (neuroses) is a term mainly used today by followers of Freudian thinking to describe mental disorders caused by past anxiety, often that has been repressed.
New Law Journal
New Law Journal (NLJ) is a British weekly legal magazine for legal professionals, first published in 1822.
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Obscene phone call
An obscene phone call is an unsolicited telephone call where a person uses profane and/or sexual language to interact with someone who may be known to them or may be a complete stranger.
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Obsessive love disorder
Obsessive love disorder (OLD) is a proposed condition in which one person feels an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess and protect another person, sometimes with an inability to accept failure or rejection.
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Office for Victims of Crime
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is a part of the Office of Justice Programs, within the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Orange County, California
Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often known by its initials O.C.) is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Oxytocin
Oxytocin is a peptide hormone and neuropeptide normally produced in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary.
Paranoia
Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety, suspicion, or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.
Pathology
Pathology is the study of disease and injury.
Persecution
Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. Stalking and Persecution are abuse.
Personality disorder
Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture.
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Peter Breggin
Peter Roger Breggin (born May 11, 1936) is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock treatment and psychiatric medication and COVID-19 response.
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Poaching
Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
Poison pen letter
A poison pen letter (or poisoned pen letter) is a letter or note containing unpleasant, abusive, or malicious statements or accusations about the recipient or a third party. Stalking and poison pen letter are abuse and harassment and bullying.
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Political repression
Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing the citizenry's ability to take part in the political life of a society, thereby reducing their standing among their fellow citizens.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).
Prevalence
In epidemiology, prevalence is the proportion of a particular population found to be affected by a medical condition (typically a disease or a risk factor such as smoking or seatbelt use) at a specific time.
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (c. 40) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Psychiatric Times
Psychiatric Times is a medical trade publication written for an audience involved in the profession of psychiatry.
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Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions.
Psychological Medicine
Psychological Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of psychiatry and related aspects of psychology and basic sciences.
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Psychological projection
Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" ''content'' mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. Stalking and Psychological projection are harassment and bullying.
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Psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.
Psychosis
Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.
Querulant
In the legal profession and courts, a querulant (from the Latin querulus - "complaining") is a person who obsessively feels wronged, particularly about minor causes of action.
R v Constanza
R v Constanza is an English case reaching the Court of Appeal and is well-known (amongst other cases) for establishing the legal precedent in English criminal law that assault could be committed by causing the victim to apprehend violence which was to take place some time in the not immediate future, that it is not necessary for the victim to see the potential perpetrator of the violence, and that it was for the prosecution to prove that fear was in the victim's mind, but how it got there is irrelevant.
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Rebecca Schaeffer
Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer (November 6, 1967 – July 18, 1989) was an American actress and model.
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Restraining order
A restraining order or protective order, is an order used by a court to protect a person in a situation often involving alleged domestic violence, child abuse, assault, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental health problems.
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Sage Publishing
Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.
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San Diego State University
San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California.
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Schizoaffective disorder
Schizoaffective disorder (SZA, SZD) is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal thought processes and an unstable mood.
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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Scottish Government
The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba) is the devolved government of Scotland.
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Secret admirer
A secret admirer is an individual who feels adoration, fondness or love for another person without disclosing their identity to that person, and who might send gifts or love letters to their crush.
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Serial rapist
A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time.
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Sexual assault
Sexual assault is an act in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.
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Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Statistical significance
In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when a result at least as "extreme" would be very infrequent if the null hypothesis were true.
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Strafgesetzbuch
Strafgesetzbuch (literally "penal law book"), abbreviated to StGB, is the German penal code.
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Substance dependence
Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption of the drug.
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Summary offence
A summary offence or petty offence is a violation in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment (required for an indictable offence).
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Sunnyvale ESL shooting
On February 16, 1988, a mass shooting occurred at the headquarters of ESL Incorporated in Sunnyvale, California, United States.
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Supreme People's Procuratorate
The Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's Republic of China (SPP) is the highest national agency responsible for legal prosecution and prosecutorial investigation in China.
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Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing, or directing.
Surveillance abuse
Surveillance abuse is the use of surveillance methods or technology to monitor the activity of an individual or group of individuals in a way which violates the social norms or laws of a society.
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Tabloid journalism
Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as half broadsheet.
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Telecommunications Act 1984
The Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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The American Journal of Psychiatry
The American Journal of Psychiatry is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of psychiatry, and is the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association.
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The Japan Times
The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.
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ThePrint
The Print is an Indian online newspaper, owned by Printline Media Pvt Ltd.
Theresa Saldana
Theresa Saldana (August 20, 1954 – June 6, 2016) was an American actress, activist, and writer.
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Threat
A threat is a communication of intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. Stalking and threat are harassment and bullying.
Threat Management Unit
In United States civilian law enforcement, a Threat Management Unit is a police department team that provides criminal and behavioral analysis and risk assessments in an attempt to review, and ultimately mitigate, the potential for violence with an emphasis on prevention.
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Toxic masculinity
The concept of toxic masculinity is used in academic and media discussions to refer to those aspects of hegemonic masculinity that are socially destructive, such as misogyny, homophobia, and violent domination.
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Tranquillity
Tranquillity (also spelled tranquility) is the quality or state of being tranquil; that is, calm, serene, and worry-free.
UBM plc
UBM plc was a British business-to-business (B2B) events organiser headquartered in London, England, before its acquisition by Informa in 2018.
Uniform Code of Military Justice
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is the foundation of the system of military justice of the armed forces of the United States.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.
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University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota (formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), colloquially referred to as "The U", is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
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Vandalism
Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.
Vexatious litigation
Vexatious litigation is legal action which is brought solely to harass or subdue an adversary.
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Victims' rights
Victims' rights are legal rights afforded to victims of crime.
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Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Violence Against Women Act
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law (Title IV of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act) signed by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994.
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Voyeurism
Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions of a private nature.
Zersetzung
Zersetzung (German for "decomposition" and "disruption") was a psychological warfare technique used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s.
Zombie apocalypse
Zombie apocalypse is a subgenre of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction in which society collapses due to overwhelming swarms of zombies.
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See also
Inchoate offenses
- Accessory (legal term)
- Accusation in a mirror
- Art and part
- Attempt
- Burglary
- Compounding a felony
- Compounding treason
- Conspiracy (criminal)
- Crime preparation
- Crime scene getaway
- Criminal conspiracy
- Encouraging or assisting a crime in English law
- Inchoate offences in English law
- Inchoate offense
- Incitement to genocide
- Incitement to terrorism
- Misprision
- Misprision of felony
- Misprision of treason
- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
- Red-tagging in the Philippines
- Solicitation
- Stalking
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking
Also known as Cause stalking, Celebriphillia, Celebrity stalking, Criminal harassment, Criminal menace, False accusations of stalking, False claims of stalking, gang stalking and delusions of persecution, Focused appreciation, Group stalking, Obsessed fan, Obsessional pursuit, Organized Stalking, Psycho stalker, Stalked, Stalker, Stalker (Stalking), Stalkers, Stalking by proxy, Terrorist stalking, Vengeance stalking.
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