... challenges posed for the victims, police and legal system it's hard to look at them as separate problems. The reality is that all the interest groups have issues that are interrelated. That is how we are going examine them throughout the essay. The majority of the research focuses on the incidence of stalking. A national survey in the US by National Institute of Justice (Tjaden and Thoennes, 1998) and the stalking questionnaire in the British Crime Survey 1998 (Budd and Mattinson, 2000) found that women (8-16%) reported being stalked as some stage in their lifetime with (2-7%) males reporting the same. It is also concluded that males are more likely to do the stalking with the exception of the erotomanic category with females taking up the majority. These statistics may not bode well for men who may wish to report being stalked; it could result in not being taken seriously. Men ...

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