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These materials clarified information previously published by the Department of Justice in a January 2009 Special Report entitled Stalking Victimization in the United States. This document clearly states that, out of the category of 3 or more stalkers, 41.2% or 185,050 such cases involved stalkers working together as a team or group.
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California was the first state to criminalize stalking in the United States in 1990 [89] as a result of numerous high-profile stalking cases in California, including the 1982 attempted murder of actress Theresa Saldana, [90] the 1988 massacre by Richard Farley, [91] the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer, [92] and five Orange County ...
Street harassment is a form of harassment, primarily sexual harassment that consists of unwanted sexualised comments, provocative gestures, honking, wolf whistles, indecent exposures, stalking, persistent sexual advances, and touching by strangers, in public areas such as streets, shopping malls and public transportation. [1]
Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet or other electronic means to stalk or harass an individual, group, or organization. [1] [2] It may include false accusations, defamation, slander and libel.
The BJS conducts the Annual Survey of Jails of a sample of about 950 U.S. jails, and a periodic Census of Jails covering all U.S. jails. [3] [4] Data from these programs was used to show that local jails in the U.S. had a sharp decline in inmates from February to May, 2020 of perhaps 185,000 inmates, more than 20% of the inmate population, in response to the danger of covid-19 on a crowded ...
Cyberstalking a child under the age of 16 or a person of any age for which the offender has been ordered by the courts not to contact is considered "aggravated stalking," a third degree felony under Florida law. Cyberstalking in conjunction with a credible threat is also considered aggravated stalking. [31]
A movie, I Can Make You Love Me [16] (also known as Stalking Laura in the United Kingdom) was made in 1993. Brooke Shields played Black and Richard Thomas played Farley. The shooting incident is also the subject of a chapter of the book Chinese Playground: A Memoir by Bill Lee, as well as a chapter in Obsession by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker.