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Cyberstalking: A New Word for a New Problem A young woman goes to court and gets a no-contact restraining order against a 28-year-old man who is harassing her. In retaliation, during the course of more than a year, the man posts her name and address on popular Internet websites including MySpace, Facebook, and Craigslist, inviting […]

The Scope of the Problem Stalking is usually measured by researchers by inter- viewing or surveying members of the general public. Respondents are categorized as stalking victims if they disclose that they were contact many times by the same person in the same way, or if they experienced a number of different kinds of unwanted

INDIVIDUALS MENACED BY STALKERS Stalking: A New Word for an Old Problem Stalking is a serious and pervasive crime that affects millions of Americans each year.… This dangerous and criminal behavior is still often mischaracterized as harmless.… Persistent stalking and harassment can lead to serious consequences for victims, whose lives may be upended by fear.

THREE COMPETING APPROACHES TO REDUCING THE PROBLEM OF FORCIBLE RAPE Over the years, three approaches have been devel- oped to address the problem of sexual assault. The oldest (now subject to vehement denunciation) is the blame-the-victim approach, which faults the attitudes, words, and actions of the person attacked. Following the logic of this approach, females

Sexual Assaults Within Marriages Under English common law, rape within marriage had been considered impossible, by definition. For centuries, the leading figures in jurisprudence con- tended that under the marriage contract, a wife V I C T IMS OF R AP E S AN D OT H E R S E XUAL AS S AULT

Sexual Assaults Behind Bars Sexual violence among inmates was rediscovered and documented as a serious problem decades ago (see Lockwood, 1980). The rape of weaker inmates by stronger prisoners, once a taboo topic, has been written about and depicted in movies for decades (see MacNamara, 1983). Rapes are periodically pic- tured in movies about prison

Sexual Assaults Between Males The forcible rape of a male by a female is presumed to be rare (as distinct from cases of seduction and statutory rape of boys by mature women), and the imagery usually arouses smirks rather than alarm. When women are arrested in sexual assault cases, they usually were acting as the

Sexual Assaults Within the Military Accusations from female soldiers, plus concerns voiced by elected officials, have caused the Penta- gon to investigate domestic violence and sexual misconduct in the military and to issue sweeping policy reforms 18 times over 16 years (see Office of the Inspector General, 2003; Corbett, 2007; Herbert, 2009; Myers, 2009; and

Guidelines for the Proper Handling of Allegations of Sexual Misconduct on Campuses The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued procedural guidelines in 2014 that ought to be fol- lowed when handling complaints about sexual misconduct on college campuses. Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, so if the campus judicial

THE REDISCOVERY OF MORE RAPE VICTIMS Because of the renewed attention paid to sexual assault by the antirape movement over the past three decades, the plight of other groups soon was rediscovered: sexual assaults on campuses, in the military, between men, behind bars in jails and pris- ons, and within marriages. Sexual Assaults on Campus