Sheridan Lorraine P, Blaauw Eric, Davies Graham M
School of Psychology, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
Trauma Violence Abuse. 2003 Apr;4(2):148-62. doi: 10.1177/1524838002250766.
The current work reviews literature on the nature of stalking. Despite its nebulous nature and differing legal and clinical definitions of stalking, researchers and practitioners are referring to the same phenomenon. Stalking is chronic, consisting of a number of nuisance behaviors that appear consistent over countries and samples. Different categorizations of stalkers and their victims exist, but ex-partner stalkers are a distinctive category with respect to their prevalence, violence risk, and attrition rate. Different samples and definitions and false victimization reports obscure reliable lifetime prevalence estimates, but these appear to be around 12%-16% among women and 4%-7% among men. Stalking has deleterious effects on victims but some of the effects may be the result of stalking's exacerbating of existing vulnerabilities. Future research should focus on subgroups of stalkers and their victims, on cross-cultural investigations, and on the co-occurrence of stalking with other crimes.
当前的研究回顾了关于跟踪骚扰本质的文献。尽管跟踪骚扰的性质模糊，其法律和临床定义也各不相同，但研究人员和从业者所指的是同一现象。跟踪骚扰具有长期性，由一些在不同国家和样本中都表现出一致性的滋扰行为组成。对跟踪骚扰者及其受害者有不同的分类，但前伴侣跟踪骚扰者在其发生率、暴力风险和损耗率方面是一个独特的类别。不同的样本、定义以及虚假的受害报告使得难以得出可靠的终生发生率估计值，但这些估计值在女性中似乎约为12% - 16%，在男性中约为4% - 7%。跟踪骚扰对受害者有有害影响，但其中一些影响可能是跟踪骚扰加剧了受害者现有脆弱性的结果。未来的研究应聚焦于跟踪骚扰者及其受害者的亚群体、跨文化调查以及跟踪骚扰与其他犯罪的共同发生情况。
