Stalking Facts
According to the Stalking Resource Center of the National Center for Victims of Crime:
- 3.4 million people over the age of
18 are stalked each year in the United States.
- 2/3 of stalkers pursue their
victims at least once per week, many daily, using more than one method.
- 3 in 4 stalking victims are stalked
by someone they know.
- 30% of stalking victims are stalked
by a current or former intimate partner.
- 10% of stalking victims are stalked
by a stranger.
- Persons aged 18-24 years experience
the highest rate of stalking.
- 78% of stalkers use more than one
means of approach.
- Weapons are used to harm or
threaten victims in 1 out of 5 cases.
- Almost 1/3 of stalkers have stalked
before.
- Intimate partner stalkers
frequently approach their targets, and their behaviors escalate quickly.
- 11% of stalking victims have been
stalked for 5 years or more.
- 46% of stalking victims experience
at least one unwanted contact per week.
- 1 in 4 victims report being stalked
through the use of some form of technology (such as e-mail or instant
messaging).
- 76% of intimate partner female
homicide victims have been stalked by their intimate partner.
- 10% of victims report being
monitored with global positioning systems (GPS), and 8% report being monitored
through video or digital cameras, or listening devices.
- 67% had been physically abused by
their intimate partner.
- 89% of female homicide victims who
had been physically assaulted had also been stalked in the 12 months before
their murder.
- 79% of abused female homicide
victims reported being stalked during the same period that they were abused.
- 54% of female homicide victims
reported stalking to police before they were killed by their stalkers.
- 46%
of stalking victims fear not knowing what will happen next.
- 29% of stalking victims fear the
stalking will never stop.
- 1 in 8 employed stalking victims
lose time from work as a result of their victimization and more than half lose
5 days of work or more.
- 1 in 7 stalking victims move as a
result of their victimization.
- The prevalence of anxiety,
insomnia, social dysfunction, and severe depression is much higher among
stalking victims
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