Statistics
Stalking:
In America 2,006,790 women and 370,990 men are stalked annually.
77% of the female victims and 64% of the male victims know their stalker.
87% of stalkers are men.
78% of stalkers use more than one means of approach
59% of female victims and 30% of male victims are stalked by a former intimate partner.
The average duration of stalking is 1.8 years
Intimate partner stalkers frequently approach their targets and their behaviors escalate quickly.
The prevalence of anxiety, insomnia, special dysfunction and sever depression is much higher among stalking victims that then general population, especially if the stalking involves being followed or having one’s property destroyed. [Blauuw, et.al.(2002), “the toll of Stalking,” Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
76% of intimate partner femicide (murder) victims had been stalked by their intimate partner.
7% of them had been physically abused by their intimate partner
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