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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849308119 ISBN 13: 9780849308116

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Although stalking is an age-old phenomenon, it is only recently receiving due attention. In a span of just ten years, all fifty states have passed anti-stalking legislation. For the first time, Stalking Crimes and Victim Protection: Prevention, Intervention, Threat Assessment, and Case Management brings together in one source all the research done by professionals in various fields since 1990. It covers all the angles, from the psychological aspects of stalkers to the legal ramifications of stalking.

This comprehensive work emphasizes a multidisciplinary concept and approach. It compiles and assesses studies of law enforcement, legal counsel, medical professionals, forensic mental health professionals, security personnel, and criminologists. These authors combine their academic research and clinical knowledge to provide you with helpful guidelines and suggestions in the areas of victim assistance and predatory stalking including:

Intervention

Prevention education

Risk analysis

Threat assessment

Case management.

Editor Joseph A. Davis, Ph.D., a nationally recognized expert in the field of public safety psychology, with a background in both psychology and law, has assembled a team of experienced professionals who have contributed to this comprehensive text, which educates, informs, and raises public awareness of this growing phenomenon. Including several case examples for study and clinical-forensic comparison, Stalking Crimes and Victim Protection will help you provide better services to victims, evaluate the mental state of the stalker, provide assessments of potential threat, and consult on security issues, case management, and safety planning.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph A. Davis, Ph.D., LL.D is a Senior Partner at The TAP Group Inc and San Diego State Uiversity Depart of Psychology, San Diego, California.

Review:

"The editor, who is an expert in the field of public safety psychology, has a background in both psychology and law. Thus he is well qualified to undertake this task of bringing together experts for this book. Stalking is an interesting, and important, topic . The volume is a significant further addition to this literature. The authors are well chosen, and write authoritatively. Overall, this is a very good book ." - Sexual & Relationship Therapy, Vol. 19, No. 2, May 2004 "I have had the opportunity to work with Dr. Joe Davis and know his work well in this area. His work is to be applauded and the contributing authors are to be congratulated for their collaboration This expertise will certainly assist those professionals who are actively working and managing stalking cases." - John E. Douglas, Author of Mindhunter and Obsession

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0849308119
• ISBN 13: 9780849308116
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 536
• Editor: Davis Joseph A.