Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures A Psychological and Behavioral Analysis

, by Meloy, J. Reid; Sheridan, Lorraine; Hoffmann, Jens

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ISBN: 9780195326383 | 0195326385
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/12/2008

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"Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures is a comprehensive survey of the current knowledge about stalking, violence risk, and threat management toward public figures. With contributions from forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, clinicians, researchers, attorneys, profilers, and current and former law enforcement and intelligence professionals, this book is the first of its kind, international in scope, and rich in both depth and complexity."--BOOK JACKET.

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Contributors	p. xv
Public Figure Stalking, Threats, and Attacks: The State of the Science	p. 3
Defining the Risk
A Forensic Investigation of Those Who Stalk Celebrities	p. 37
The Role of Psychotic Illnesses in Attacks on Public Figures	p. 55
Homicidal Celebrity Stalkers: Dangerous Obsessions With Nonpolitical Public Figures	p. 83
On Public Figure Howlers	p. 105
Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Corporate Figures	p. 123
The Public Figure Assassin as Terrorist	p. 143
Explaining the Risk
Contributions From Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis to Advance Understanding of Public Figure Stalking and Attacking	p. 165
Celebrities as Victims of Stalking	p. 195
Psychopathy and Predatory Stalking of Public Figures	p. 215
Two Case Studies of Corporate-Celebrity Male Victims: The Stalking of Steven Spielberg and Stephen Wynn	p. 245
Toward the Measurement and Profiling of Celebrity Worship	p. 271
Fanning the Flames of Fandom: Celebrity Worship, Parasocial Interaction, and Stalking	p. 287
Managing the Risk
Operations of the LAPD Threat Management Unit	p. 325
Risk Assessment of Public Figure Stalkers	p. 343
Preventing Assassination: Psychiatric Consultation to the United States Secret Service	p. 363
Offender Profiling and Celebrity Stalking Cases	p. 387
Prosecuting Celebrity Stalkers	p. 407
Use of Threat Assessment for the Protection of the United States Congress	p. 425
From Violent Words to Violent Deeds: Assessing Risk from FBI Threatening Communication Cases	p. 435
About the Editors	p. 457
Index	p. 459
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