ay for fame."11 Where stalking is concerned, society, it seems, wants to keep it a personal matter. Perhaps due to the mostly domestic context of the crime, most people rely on the out of sight, out of mind approach where stalking episodes are concerned. Cases are viewed as "lover's quarrels" or " personal matters," and other people (often including law enforcement officials) choose to turn a blind eye--usually until it is too late to help.12 We should have harsher laws against stalking. Last year the state of California increased the maximum sentence on a first offense to four years, and formed a new Stalking and Threat Assessment Team to isolate cases of stalking and workplace threats before they escalated into violence.13 Stalking is bothersome at best, and at worst, terrifying. Victims lose a sense of control in their lives and are plagued by self-blame, fear and a lack of self-esteem. Their privacy is destroyed, and they are constantly lookin!.
g over their shoulders. They will always live in fear of them being a victim of a stalker. For a person to be accused of stalking the guidelines required that said circumstances occur on more than one occasion, with at least one including a threat of bodily harm to the victim or member of his or her family. The law decreed that this threat could come via spoken words or actions.14 The most extensive study on the stalking phenomenon was done by Dietz. Using 5,000 letters supplied by de Becker, he spent six years on the problem. He found that fans who write letters filled with threats are least likely to attempt physical contact. It is fans who write of romance and intimacy who are most likely to do so. "Many celebrities wait until there's been an over threat. They don't realize that, for them, love letters from adult strangers are the greatest risk."15 Dietz, who theorizes that 95% of the letters were written by the mentally ill, says fans turn violent not because t!.
Anyone can be a stalker. ... In most cases the stalker is a man, yet women do stalk men also. ... Also, to the surprise of most of us, stalkers do sometimes stalk the same sex. Stalking someone of the same sex occurs firm time to time, and it is usually only reported in the press when it involves celebrities, or other public figures. ... Stalking in the Workplace ...
I will give specific examples of stalker stories and the effects some celebrities have on society and the public. For example, I will discuss the death of Princess Diana, death of R&B singer, Aaliyah, the famous hate lyrics of the rap star Marshall Mather's a.k.a Eminem, and the trauma Steven Spielberg and other famous celebrities had to go through because of their stalkers. ... Another topic this article touches on is the idea of how celebrities need us the people to for them to become celebrities. For example, a direct quote taken from Mark Gizerson states, "The Celebrities seek the ad...
Some celebrities enjoy the attention but usually it goes too far. ... Then there are those celebrities, such as the royal family, who are born great. ... The Paparazzi stalks them and exposes them to the world. ... This alone could cause a hectic situation, but then there is the Paparazzi that on any given day would go out looking for celebrities and stalk them. ... The Paparazzi does things like this to get celebrities to act in angry manners and to capture their wild sides. ...
The media mainly focuses on celebrities, politicians and other prominent people. ... They"ll follow these people around stalking them and harassing them to find a story. ... The next reason is because of how people think of the celebrities. Some people hold celebrities as hero's or examples of how they want to be when they grow up. With the media exposing everything a celebrity does it can hurt how the fans of the celebrity think of him or her. ...
All the tabloids employ royal-watching reporters, some of whom have become celebrities in their own right. ... (Sabjan, 1998) But with an abundant amount of freelance photographers stalking her every move upon her leaving Kensington Palace, that idea proved impossible. ... (Sabjan, 1998) The public had forced itself into the life of a celebrity and caused the pressure from the media to become overwhelming. ...
Most of the time, young people are looking down at their phone either scrolling through Facebook or stalking their favorite celebrity on Twitter. Since so much time is spent in these places, media can play a huge role in shaping the views and beliefs of a teenager, especially if a teenager's favorite celebrity is passionate about it. ... Two obvious celebrities who are passionate about the gay pride movement are Macklemore and Lady Gaga. ...
A male cuts off his own manhood because he claimed that his homosexual neighbor was stalking him. ... Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work week, proper etiquette, getting to know your neighbors and entertaining interviews with celebrities. ...
A male cuts off his own manhood because he claimed that his homosexual neighbor was stalking him. ... Topics range from teaching your children responsibility, managing your work week, proper etiquette, getting to know your neighbors and entertaining interviews with celebrities. ...
In "Stalking Celebrities," Heather Havrilesky tells about how "celebrities were cornered and tagged by surveillance cameras, digital cameras, cellphones, voice mails, e-mails, downloaded files, and anonymous posts in comment sections" (446). ...
