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Safety for Stalking Victims:
How to Save Your Privacy,
Your Sanity,
and Your Life
By Lyn Bates
If you are being stalked, or if you are concerned about someone who
is the target of this potentially very dangerous crime, safety
should be at the top of your priority list. Being the target of an
obsessed person is a frightening experience. But it isn't necessary
to live in fear. Learning how to be safe is the key.
This book
explains what stalking is, how to keep it from overwhelming your
life, what is known about evaluating a stalker's potential to turn
violent, and how to keep the situation from becoming worse, while
being ready for anything. Using scenarios based on real stalking
cases, this book overflows with detailed, practical strategies to
put you in control of your life, and let you break the cycle of
terror.
About the
author:
Lyn Bates is a founder and vice
president of the non-profit AWARE, an organization devoted to
teaching women to protect themselves from stalking and lethal
assault. An award-winning expert on anti-stalking defensive
strategies, she has helped thousands of people to avoid potential
dangers and, when necessary, protect themselves with defensive
weapons from pepper spray to firearms.
How to Stop a Stalker
By Detective Mike Proctor
If you are a victim of a stalker or suspect that you might be, this
book will give you the means not only to protect yourself, but
ultimately to help put the stalker behind bars. Veteran
detective Mike Proctor, a long-time officer of the Westminster,
California, Police Department, has written this essential survival
guide for anyone who becomes the target of one of these predators.
This indispensable handbook will give stalking victims the means to
protect themselves, and also to help put the stalker behind
bars. It explains the who, what, where, why, and how of stalking and
teaches victims what to do, from simple home security measures to
actual prosecution. Many examples are taken from actual cases, and
will be of great use to current or potential stalking victims,
victim advocates, law enforcement officials, personnel departments,
and employers.
About the author:
A recognized expert and pioneer in the investigation of stalkers,
has over thirty years of law enforcement experience, during which he
has worked and consulted on over 200 stalking cases, all of which
have been successfully prosecuted. He also conducts seminars
for victim advocate groups, and evaluates grants.
Additionally, he has written for the Journal of California Law
Enforcement and provides training seminars for colleges as well as
law enforcement agencies on how to deal with the menace of stalking.
He has appeared on many national television shows like America's
Most Wanted, 20/20, Court TV, Case Closed, & Unsolved Mysteries.
Unmasking the Cyberstalker
by Jeffrey C. Naylor
Cyberstalkers tend to be white males that are typically a
professional of some type. Their preferred method of engagement is
usually by E-mail, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Internet Community
Forums, and most recently via Blogs (using weblogs to mine for
information or to spread derogatory information) which is still
fairly new, and has not yet figured in the statistics, but it is
becoming a choice mode of attack by cyberstalkers.
About the author:
Jeff Naylor is a former Special Agent with the United States Army
Criminal Investigation Division (CID), and has also served as Vice
President Cheney's Primary Security Officer. As a Certified
Instructor, he has provided lectures for universities, colleges,
military agencies, law enforcement and community organizations. He
is the owner of J. A. Naylor Investigative and Consulting Firm,
which provides assistance for victims of stalking and
cyberstalking on a nation-wide basis.
How To Lose Anyone Anywhere
By Michael Scott
This manual was written
to assist people in taking legal, adequate measures to insure their
privacy, and obtaining freedom from individuals who may be
disrupting their lives. It is primarily written to assist victims of
stalking.
Topics include the mind of the stalker, examining his thinking,
motives and tactics, basic countermeasures to assist one in bringing
to an end this unwanted intrusion, and dealing with the hard core
stalker.
About the author:
Michael Scott has been assisting victims of stalking since 1996,
and was the author of the first publication (HOW TO LOSE ANYONE
ANYWHERE) ever written on stalking measures.
His work has been reviewed by the Boston Globe as well as Ralph
Thomas of Thomas Investigative Publications and he is considered one
of the foremost experts on stalking countermeasures. He has also
been interviewed by Steven Wolf and appeared on the CRIME TALK
RADIO SHOW. Many news sources turn to Michael Scott for writing and
researching articles related to the problem of stalking.
Toxic Attention: Keeping Safe from Stalkers, Abusers, and Intruders
By Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg
This book presents safety information in
simple To-Do checklists so you can help keep yourself safe. If you
desire to improve your personal protection, but haven't a clue as to
how to go about Keeping Safe from Stalkers, Abusers, and
Intruders, this sensible, can-do approach can offer very useful
information. Toxic Attention can be the most valuable tool in
helping you to become responsible for your own safety.
About the author:
Sherry L. Meinberg, Ed.D. has the unfortunate distinction of being
the person in the United States who has been stalked for the longest
time: 40 years as of the writing of this book.
Surviving a Stalker
By Linden Gross
Most people
believe that stalkers only target the rich and famous, not the
average citizen. The truth is, stalking is one of the most prevalent
yet overlooked forms of domestic violence in America today, with an
estimated 1.4 million people nationwide stalked each year. And that
figure does not even include the rising number of people being
harassed on the Internet. Surviving a Stalker, the ultimate
practical guidebook to surviving stalking, provides all the
necessary tools you need to handle obsessive attention and to regain
control of your life. Journalist and stalking expert Linden Gross
offers a wealth of invaluable guidance, including: How to recognize
and control those natural reactions that might put you at risk; How
to handle inappropriate attention on- and off-line and break the
stalking cycle; How to protect your privacy and safety as well as
that of your loved ones. Gross explains how these dangerous
obsessions begin, the patterns they take, and what potential victims
can do before the nightmare becomes a reality. Through a multitude
of case studies, medical and other professionals who deal with
stalking will gain a clearer understanding of the crime, the toll it
takes, and how to handle it. Surviving a Stalker will help all
victims, as well as potential victims, keep themselves safe and be a
vital resource for all professionals who counsel them.
How to be Invisible
By J. J. Luna
The subtitle of
this book is: a step-by-step guide to protecting your assets, your
identity, and your life, and it delivers on that promise. Though
written primarily for people who want to protect their assets by
keeping a very, very low public profile, this book has lots to offer
stalking victims. It gives detailed information on how to establish
a "ghost address" that is completely separate from where you
actually live. Other topics include home deliveries, house calls,
FedEx, UPS, untraceable trash, anonymous utilities, and using
corporations to protect one's privacy.
About the author:
J. J. Luna is the pseudonym of a highly trained and
experienced security consultant
The Stalking of Kristen:
A Father Investigates the Murder of His Daughter
By George Lardner, Jr.
"This is
Kristin's story. I'd give anything not to have written it." Kristin
Lardner's father won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of Washington
Post articles about this promising young art student who was killed
by a jealous ex-boyfriend. In this expanded book version he makes
the important point that Kristin did everything right. She was
educated and sophisticated, and had the time and resources to make
the law work for her. And she was a member of the class of people
who believe the law when it promises to protect them. With a
parent's rage, and an impressive command of the facts and
statistics, George Lardner refutes the widespread belief that the
courts offer effective protection to battered women who do report
their abusers and press charges. The book includes photos of
Kristin's artwork about abuse of women and 80 pages of footnotes and
bibliography about the legal system.
About the
author:
George Lardner, Jr, is an investigative reporter for
the Washington Post. The articles he wrote for the Post about the
murder of his daughter, on which this book is based, were awarded a
Pulitzer prize in 1993. He has also covered such stories as
Watergate, Chappaquidick, the Kennedy assassinations, Iran-Contra,
the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Unibomber case.
The Psychology of Stalking
Edited by J.
Reid Meloy
The Psychology of
Stalking is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published.
Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of
criminal psychopathology has contributed to this comprehensive
resource. These chapters explore stalking from social, psychiatric,
psychological, legal, and behavioral perspectives. New thinking and
data are presented on threats, pursuit characteristics, psychiatric
diagnoses, offender-victim typologies, cyberstalking, false
victimization syndrome, erotomania, stalking and domestic violence,
stalking of public figures, and many other aspects of stalking. This
landmark text is of interest to both professionals and other
thoughtful individuals who recognize the serious nature of this
ominous social behavior at the end of the millennium.
About the
Author:
Dr. Reid Meloy is a diplomate in forensic psychology
of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He was Chief of
the Forensic Mental Health Division for San Diego County, and now
devotes his time to a private civil and criminal forensic practice,
research, writing, and teaching. He is an associate clinical
professor University of San Diego School of Law. He is also a Fellow
of the Society for Personality Assessment, and is currently
President of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. In 1992 he
received the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a
Profession Award from the California Psychological Association. Dr.
Meloy has authored or co-authored over 100 papers published in
peer-reviewed psychiatric and psychological journals, and has
written or edited four books. He is a sought after speaker and
psychological consultant on various civil and criminal cases
throughout the United States, most recently the Madonna stalking
case and the Polly Klaas murder case. In 1997, he completed work as
the forensic psychologist for the prosecution in United States vs.
Timothy McVeigh and the United States vs. Terry Nichols.
Stalkers and Their Victims
by Paul E. Mullen, Michele Pathe, and Rosemary Purcell
Discusses
stalking as an issue of public, legal, and scientific concern,
impact on victims, association of stalking with physical and sexual
assault, international anti-stalking laws, support and practical
advice for victims, and assessing and managing the stalker. Includes
case studies. For clinicians and graduate students.
I Know You Really Love Me:
A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking
and Obsessive Love
Doreen
R. Orion
In September
1989, Doreen Orion was just beginning her psychiatric practice when
one of her female patients developed an erotomanic obsession with
her. Over the next eight years, this patient skulked outside of
Orion's house and at her workplace, leaving bizarre messages,
watching her, and making her unwelcome presence known in virtually
every aspect of her life. In I Know You Really Love Me, Orion
recounts her legal and emotional struggles as she tried to take
control of the situation. As a psychiatrist, Orion has fascinating
insights into the condition that causes some people to obsess
inappropriately over others. She also describes compellingly the
feelings of helplessness and fear that stalking causes its
victims--but always with the compassion and understanding of someone
who works with the mentally ill. Her unique perspective as both a
victim and a professional makes I Know You Really Love Me not just a
blow-by-blow account of a stalking, but a practical guide to
understanding, avoiding, and discouraging stalkers. --Lisa Higgins
Stalked!
Breaking the Silence on the Crime of Stalking in America
by Melita Schaum and Karen Parrish
For thousands of
women, and a smaller but equally victimized number of men, stalking
is a potentially deadly reality -- while the options to counter the
crime have been limiting and confusing. Stalkers harass celebrities,
politicians, and ordinary citizens - no one is exempt. Now, for the
first time, here is a comprehensive resource that gives everyone
practical strategies to take action against this crime.
Stalking: A Handbook for Victims
by Emily Spence-Diehl
When one has been
the victim of stalking there are special needs to be met. If a
stalker has begun to rob you of your sense of control over life, you
may be overwhelmed and unsure of where to turn next. When arrived
with resources, choices, safety tips, and stalker information you
will be able to turn the tide against the stalker and regain some
power over your life. The book presents options not directions. It
is a handbook not an instruction manual. There is no "one size fits
all" approach to stalking intervention. Thus, options and resources
are provided. Stalking laws across the nation are less than a decade
old. Victims already know that most communities are not prepared to
deal with the ongoing and unpredictable nature of stalking. It is
critical to know the full range of your rights and options.
Copyright Notice
Material on this website may be reused by people and
organizations for non-commercial purposes, provided that AWARE is
credited as the source. Before using this material for other
purposes, please contact AWARE for permission.
***Permission granted by Lyn Bates, ***
co-founder of AWARE on March 11, 2003 |
