Citation

Dietz PE, Martell DA. J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 2010; 38(3): 341-348.

Affiliation

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA. parkdietz@parkdietzassociates.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Publisher American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20852219

Abstract

The concept of studying approaches to public figures (i.e., physical pursuit or stalking) arose as a proxy measure to aid in the development of tools to prevent assassination, a low base rate event. In this commentary, we review the origins of this concept and the historical record of public figure attacks in the United States that formed the empirical basis of the concept, we describe case examples of approaches toward public figures in the United States that did not result in injurious attacks, and we provide a synopsis of our findings on the ways in which communications predict approach.

Language: en