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August, 2006, 374 pages.

Dr. Reid Meloy’s ninth book provides his vast research on stalking and obsessional following and summarizes the implications of that research. Framed with a beautifully haunting cover painting by Konstantin Dikovsky titled, “The Hidden,” Dr. Meloy has produced the most comprehensive chronology of what we know about stalking yet published. It is a must for every forensic library and any professional working in this area.

From the Foreword
“Stalking is neither new nor rare. Examples of intrusive behaviors that would now be identified as stalking have been described for centuries, but in the late 1980s these behaviors finally found a name. Initially, the American media applied the evocative term “stalkers” to those who pursued the famous. This label gripped the public’s imagination and rapidly propelled stalking into the public’s consciousness. It exposed a once obscure form of social deviance and provided the impetus for its criminalization.”

Though not a new behavior, stalking may well be more prevalent in a new millennium characterized by…”

Table of Contents

Foreword
1. Unrequited Love and the Wish to Kill
2. Nondelusional or Borderline Erotomania: A Disagreement
3. A Case Study: Revisiting the Rorschach of Sirhan Sirhan
4. Demographic and Clinical Comparison of Obsessional Followers and Offenders with Mental Disorders
5. A Case Study: Erotomania in a Shi’ite Islamic Male
6. Stalking (Obsessional Following): A Review of Some Preliminary Studies
7. A Case Study: “All I wanted was to love you…”
8. The Clinical Risk Management of Stalking: “Someone is watching over me…”
9. A Comparative Study of Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Stalking
10. Domestic Protection Orders and the Prediction of Subsequent Criminality and Violence Toward Protectees
11. Stalking: An Old Behavior, A New Crime
12. A Case Study: Erotomania, Triangulation, and Homicide
13. A Replication Study of Obsessional Followers and Offenders with Mental Disorders
14. Risk Factors for Violence Among Stalkers
15. Stalking and Violence
16. Communicated Threats and Violence Toward Public and Private Targets: Discerning Differences Among Those Who Stalk and Attack
17. Pathologies of Attachment, Violence, and Criminality
18. Stalking, Threatening, and Harassing Behavior by Patients – The Risk Management Response
19. When Stalkers Become Violent: The Threat to Public Figures and Private Lives
20. Female Stalkers and Their Victims
21. A Research Review of Public Figure Threats, Approaches, Attacks, and Assassinations in the United States
22. Some Thoughts on the Neurobiology of Stalking
Acknowledgements

Published 2008. 474 pages.

Public figures require attention, whether from a constituency who votes them in or out of office, shareholders who decide their economic benefit to the corporation, or fans who judge their performances. However, on the periphery of this normal attention resides a very real risk; that of a much smaller group of individuals who lack the ability to discriminate between their own private fantasies and the figure’s public behavior. They may be personally insulted by perceived betrayal, fanatically in love due to a perceived affectionate or sexual invitation, or simply preoccupied with the daily life of the public figure. Such individuals may fixate and do nothing more. Others communicate or approach in a disturbing way. A few will threaten. And on rare occasions, one will breach the public figure’s security perimeter and attack.

Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures is a comprehensive survey of the current knowledge about stalking, violence risk, and threat management towards public figures. With contributions from forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, clinicians, researchers, attorneys, profilers, and current and former law enforcement enforcement professionals, this book is the first of its kind, international in scope, and rich in both depth and complexity.

The book is divided into three sections which, in turn, focus upon defining, explaining, and risk managing this increasingly complex global reality. Chapters include detailed case studies, analyses of quantitative data, reflections from attachment theory and psychoanalytic thought, descriptions of law enforcement and protective organization activities, mental health and psychiatric categorizations and understandings, consideration of risk assessment models and variables, victim perspectives, and others.

Threat Assessment and Management Strategies: Identifying the Hunters and Howlers, Second edition

The field of threat assessment and the research surrounding it have exploded since the first edition of Threat Assessment and Management Strategies: Identifying the Howlers and Hunters. To reflect those changes, this second edition contains more than 100 new pages of material, including several new chapters, charts, and illustrations, as well as updated cases.

The book has been reorganized into two parts. The first part offers the authors’ current thinking on how to conduct practical and effective threat management processes. The second provides an in-depth analysis of how howlers and hunters behave and how understanding those behaviors can be used to manage each type of problem individual.

This new edition draws on the latest research, as well as ideas and concepts from the authors’ previous books. It integrates the sum of their careers in threat management—both their individual experiences managing problem situations and their research and writing on the topic—into a single volume. As in each of their previous books, it focuses on operationally effective and practical methods for managing problem situations.

This book also covers special issues in threat management, exploring the relationship between the law and the intimacy effect as well as different ways to identify, assess, and manage howlers and hunters. Each chapter concludes with a real-life situation analysis relevant to the subject under focus.

Drawing upon the latest research and on the previous work of its authors, Threat Assessment and Management Strategies, Second Edition provides a complete guide to setting up successful threat management processes. It approaches the presented strategies as guidelines rather than prescriptions, emphasizing that threat managers must use their intelligence and originality to modify strategies as necessary to suit each situation.

2016, 259 pages

Violence Assessment and Intervention: The Practitioners Handbook, Third Edition

2019, 490 pages