@article{ref1,
title="Stalking: From "romantic pursuit" to sexual predation",
journal="Presse Medicale (1983)",
year="2018",
author="Cailleau, Virginie and Harika-Germaneau, Ghina and Delbreil, Alexia and Jaafari, Nematollah",
volume="47",
number="6",
pages="510-518",
abstract="Deriving from the English verb &quot;to stalk&quot;, 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.<br><br>Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0755-4982",
doi="10.1016/j.lpm.2018.03.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lpm.2018.03.002"
}