Citation

Cailleau V, Harika-Germaneau G, Delbreil A, Jaafari N. Presse Med. (1983) 2018; 47(6): 510-518.

Vernacular Title

Le stalking : de la « poursuite romantique » à la prédation sexuelle.

Affiliation

Centre hospitalier Henri-Laborit, unité de recherche clinique intersectorielle en psychiatrie à vocation régionale Pierre-Deniker, CRIAVS Poitou-Charentes, 370, avenue Jacques-Cœur, CS 10587, 86021 Poitiers cedex, France; Centre hospitalier Henri-Laborit, pôle hospitalo-universitaire adulte, unité de recherche clinique intersectorielle en psychiatrie à vocation régionale Pierre-Deniker, 370, avenue Jacques-Cœur, CS 10587, 86021 Poitiers cedex, France; Université de Poitiers, CHU de Poitiers, groupement de recherche CNRS 3557, 86000 Poitiers, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.lpm.2018.03.002

PMID

29776796

Abstract

Deriving from the English verb "to stalk", stalking denotes an unwelcome, repetitive, and intrusive harassing and/or threatening behavior directed toward a specific individual, and can result in physical and/or sexual offending - even leading to homicide. French harassment legislation has evolved over the years, and the last law closest to the international anti-stalking laws had been promulgated in 2014. According to a review, up to 16% of women and 7% of men are stalked in their life, and 80% of the stalkers are known to their victims. Stalkers are a heterogeneous population, either seeking an intimate relationship with someone the stalker knows or with a celebrity, or being revenge-motivated, or tracking their victims with the aim of offending them. Stalkers threat their victims in about half of the cases, and physically offend them in a third of the cases, violence being more often directed against ex-intimates. Sexual offending would be the consequence of harassment behavior for some stalkers, and would be the initial aim of the stalking for others.

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Language: fr