Criminalizing attractions: Perceptions of stalking and the stalker

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-25

  Kinkade, Patrick ^a   Burns, Ronald ^a   Fuentes, Angel Ilarraza ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Media; Perception; Stalkers; Stalking

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944236979     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128703262462     Document Type: Review

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