What can we learn from the first community-based epidemiological study on stalking in Germany?

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-17

  Dressing, Harald ^a   Gass, Peter ^a   Kuehner, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Stalker typologies; Stalking; Stalking victimization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STALKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRIME VICTIMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33845448680     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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