Stalking Essay

When people hear the word stalking, they mainly associate the term with a stranger who follows around someone. However, most stalkers are former friends or partners of their victims. Stalking is a criminal activity of someone harassing or threatening another person repeatedly. About 90% of stalkers are men and 80% of victims are women, but 8% of men and 2% of women have been stalked in their lifetime. However, stalking is extremely difficult to prove because it is a case of “he said, she said”. Therefore, stalking is sometimes overlooked. There are many types of stalkers with crazy motivations, outrageous personalities and behaviors and they have forever changed the lives of their victims.

Many people assume that all stalkers are the same, but there are seven different types of stalkers and each type has a different motivation. The first type is the rejected stalker; they are motivated after their relationship with their partner (romantic or close friendship) has ended. This type of stalker wants to be in a relationship with them again or seek revenge on them. The second type of stalker is the resentful stalker; they want to frighten or distress their victim and stalk them in order to get revenge on someone who has upset them. The third type of stalker is the predatory stalker; these stalkers stalk their victim as a part of a plan to attack them. The fourth type is intimacy seeker; these stalkers want to obtain an intimate, romantic, and loving relationship with their victim and they believe that the victim is in love with them as well. The fifth type the, incompetent survivor, is similar to the intimacy seeker. They are motivated by a desire to start a romantic relationship with the victim. The sixth and seventh types are the ...

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...ought the attention of Stalking. She was stalked by, Robert John Bardo, a fan that admired her greatly in the beginning. He would watch every film or television tat she was in and even go to some of her sets. However, after one of her movies he became furious of her and began to stalk her angrily. Then on July, 19,1989, he went to her home in Los Angeles, California, and killed her. Bardo was the reason laws on stalking came to California first. (findadeath)

Stalking is extremely dangerous and should not be overlooked. Although some people are able to escape their stalker, other do not. There are many types of stalkers with crazy motivations, outrageous behaviors, and they have forever changed the lives of their victims. Stalking is no light matter and it is a crime. However, since stalking is now well known people have been taking measures to keep themselves safe.