Stalking and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

Puente Maria , “Legislators Tackling the Terror of Stalking” (1992) USA Today, July 21, at 9A.

See Attinello Kelli , “Anti-Stalking Legislation: A Comparison of Traditional Remedies Available for Victims of Harassment Versus California Penal Code Section 646.9” (1993) 24 Pac. LJ 945

For an excellent review of stalking statutes, see Morin Karen S. , “The Phenomenon of Stalking: Do Existing State Statutes Provide Adequate Protection?” (1993) 1 San Diego Just. J. 123.

See for example, Wallace H. , “Stalkers, the Constitution, and Victims' Remedies” (1995) 10/1 Criminal Justice 16 (Spring).

US Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, and the Judiciary and Related Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1993, Public Law 103–395, s. 109(b).

California Penal Code, s. 649.

Detective Douglas Raymond, speech presented at the Fourth Annual Threat Management Conference, Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, California, June 29, 1994; and Woods Lowell T. Jr. , “Anti-Stalker Legislations: A Legislative Attempt to Surmount the Inadequacies of Protective Orders” (1993) 27 Ind. L. Rev. 449.

(1994) 30 Cal. Rptr. 2d 422. For a discussion of alternatives available to victims of stalking see, Wallace H. , “A Prosecutor's Guide to Stalking” (1995) The Prosecutor, January/February, p. 26.

Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th revised edn [DSM-IV] American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC, 1994, p. 424.

Burgress A.W. and Holmstrom L.L. , “The Rape Trauma Syndrome” (1974) 131 American Journal of Psychiatry 981.

Kilpatrick D.G. Saunders B. Amick-McMullan A. Best C. Vernonen L. and Resnick H. , “Victim and Crime Factors Associated with the Development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder” (1989) 20 Behavioural Therapy 199.

Riggs D.S. Dancu C.V. Gershuny B. S. Greenbert D. , and Foa E.B. , “Anger and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Female Crime Victims” (1992) 5 Journal of Traumatic Stress 613.

Chronicle (1995) The New York Times, February 6, p. 46.

Zona Michael A. , “A Comparative Study of Erotomanic and Obsessional Subjects in a Forensic Sample” (1993) 38 J. Forensic Sci. 894.

Aphrodite Matsakis (1992) I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors, Oakland, California: New Harbinger Publications.