Prior to 1990 there was no penal code to define stalking. In 1989 Rebecca Schaeffer, who starred in the television show "My Sister Sam" was shot at point blank range by John Bardo, an obsessed fan who had been stalking her for two years. This act and others similar resulted in legislation creating penal code 649.5. Stalking is now part of the legal system including the California Family and California civil codes. The laws are a good start but are vague, not harsh enough and only effective if the person stalking has repeated behavior.
California Penal Code 649.9 defines a stalker as an individual who "willfully, maliciously and repeatedly harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury." The law defines harassment as a "knowing and willful coarse of conduct (over time) directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, or harasses that person, and which serves no legitimate purpose." A "credible threat" is a threat made "with the intent and the apparent ability to carry out that threat so as to cause the person who is the target of the threat to reasonably fear for his or her own safety.".
Under this Penal Code not only the victim but the victim's immediate family members are protected from the stalker. "Immediate family" Includes a spouse, parent, child or sibling, or any other person who regularly resides in a person's household or resided in a person's household within the past six months. .
If a person is convicted of stalking according to PC 649.5 that person may face .
Imprisonment for up to a year and/or a fine up to $500.00, unless the stalker pursued you in violation of a previous court order, then the punishment may be two to four years imprisonment. .
Since the 1990 California law was added to the Penal Code all 50 states except Maine have added stalking laws to their legislation.
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. ... Many are the result of stalking. ... Stalking in the Workplace ...
Stalking doesn't stop alone Many people know the characteristics of a stalker, but a lot of people don't know how to deal with a stalker. Some of the solutions for a stalking situation not to become fatal are to know the facts about stalking; they can be helpful. You should also know the profile of a stalker. ... Every year 1.4 Americans are stalked. ... The profile of a stalker is very important to know in case you"re ever in a stalking situation. ...
The Stalking of Celebrities Stalking remains Hollywood's recurrent celebrity nightmare.1 Never before have we been able to know as much about a star as we do about a close pal. ... They will always live in fear of them being a victim of a stalker. ... The Senate is taking important steps to protect the interests of stalking victims, but the laws are still too soft on stalkers. Under both the 1994 and current laws, stalking is only a misdemeanor offense, unless there is a previous stalking conviction. ... Rather than constantly reforming laws to be stalker-friendly, the focus should ce...
Profile of a cyber stalker: The anonymity of the Internet is enticing to the cyber-stalker. ... Cyber stalking can range from harassing e-mails, to sending viruses, to hacking for personal information, to identity theft, to physical stalking, to violence. 8.1 percent of women surveyed and 2.2 percent of men surveyed say they have been the victim of cyber-stalking. ... According to Working To Halt Online Abuse, an organization designed to identify, prevent, and stop online stalking, about 20% of Internet stalking crosses over into real-life stalking. ... Victims of a cyber stalker ofte...
Therefore, it is possible to obtain a pure population of cells that have not yet synthesized stalks enabling the study of stalk formation as well as mechanisms of stalk-protein localization. ... I will use these 3 stalk proteins (CC0498, CC1953, and CC3022) to probe the mechanisms of stalk localization in C. crescentus. Very little is known about these 3 stalk proteins. ... Using an in vivo pulse-chase type of experiment, I will test whether stalk proteins are delivered directly to the stalk. ... If the green fluorescence is initially diffuse and later localizes to the stalk, I will con...
My paper will examine the wider phenomenon of stalking, cover issues relating to legal and behavioral classifications, and to examine the incidence and prevalence of stalking. ... What is Cyber Stalking? The termcyber stalking? ... While the differences between the two forms of stalking must be acknowledged, it is most important to acknowledge that cyber stalking is fundamentally an extension of the physical act. ... Irrespective of the jurisdiction, there are several key criteria for conduct to be considered stalking. ...
Lestat is the main character in this story and he is a very pale skinny vampire, in the begining of the story he is stalking a very powerful cocain dealer/art collecter(roger), he has been stalking him for 6 months, at the time he is stalking him someone or something is stalking lestat(memnoch the devil) In the beginning of the book, Lestat, is a very smart vampire referred to as "Brat Prince" he stalks a wealthy art collector. ... Lestat observes his own actions and concludes that he himself is sick and evil as well, due to his obsessive stalking. ... Throughout his stalking of Roger, Lest...
., violence) influenced by these games (Stalking). ... Maharaj) and evidence suggests that the majority of cyber-stalkers are men. The Internet makes stalking, or "cyber-stalking," much easier for the perpetrator than off-line stalking. The anonymity of e-mail and chat rooms cloak stalkers well, and stalkers can easily access private information about their victims via the Internet. ... In a national survey of college women during the 1996-97 academic year, 13% were stalked and 25% of those incidences reportedly involved cyber-stalking (Slavin, T.). ...
