Despite the high prevalence of stalking and the risk of harm it poses to victims, arrest rates,
prosecutions, and convictions for stalking continue to be low in the United States. The …

Objective: The only systematic studies of attacks on public figures come from the USA.
These studies de‐emphasize the role of mental illness and suggest threats are of no …

The concept of warning behaviors offers an additional perspective in threat assessment.
Warning behaviors are acts which constitute evidence of increasing or accelerating risk …

Awards and Praise for the first edition: Recipient of the 2006 International Association for
Relationship Research (IARR) Book Award" This text, as it presently stands, is THE go-to …

A new typology of stalking, RECON (relationship and context‐based), is proposed, based
upon the prior relationship between the pursuer and the victim, and the context in which the …

Objective: Due to the nature of their work, politicians are at greater risk of stalking,
harassment and attack than the general population. The small, but significantly elevated risk …

T hreat assessment and threat management are assessment and threat management rely
on the first terms used interchangeably in many differ-ent fields of study—including military …

This article aims to move away from intuitive appeals that link mental disorder with violence
such as terrorism, mass murder, and other targeted violence. The article synthesizes the …

This paper considers the problem created by those who harbour unusually intense fixations
on public figures. It examines the nature of such pathological fixations and how they differ …

This authentic threat asserts impending fatal injury. Because of the dangerous nature of
threats, investigators must immediately ask: Is the intent real? Is the threatener likely to act …