Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice

by Jennifer Dunn

This work is a wide-ranging and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. It explores how it feels and what it means to be stalked by a former intimate and how this situation creates dilemmas for victims and their advocates. What is it like to try to become a "victim" in the eyes of the law and then to remain one, when almost anything a woman does to manage the violent emotions of an ex-husband or ex-boyfriend...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202306615
• ISBN13: 9780202306612
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"