Stalking

Stalking: Know It, Name It, Stop It
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Stalking Definitions

Meloy, 1998; Stalking is defined as “the willful, malicious and repeated following and harassing of another person”
Kansas State Statute; As used in the protection from stalking act:

(a) “Stalking” means an intentional harassment of another person that places the other person in reasonable fear for that person’s safety.

(b) “Harassment” means a knowing and intentional course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, torments or terrorizes the person, and that serves no legitimate purpose.

(c) “Course of conduct” means conduct consisting of two or more separate acts over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose which would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of “course of conduct.”

Criminal Stalking: “an intentional, malicious and repeated following or harassment of another person and making a credible threat with the intent to place such person in reasonable fear for that person’s safety.”