Stalking

Abduction Out there, in this huge world, it’s dangerous. Nobody really would ever know until it happened to you. People might not realize how bad this can affect a person. Abduction, kidnapping, and molestation, it all happens. You wouldn't want this to happen to you or your children. The citizens should be aware of this, and how it's a very serious matter, the damage it does to a family. These are scary nasty predators, not friends. Missing children is a horrifying concept. Will you ever…

“I closed my eyes and put my hands on my ears, so there is nothing more to describe but what I couldn’t block out: those yells from Russell, Fleur’s hoarse breath, so loud it filled me, her cry in the old language and our names repeated over and over among the words (Erdrich, 1988, p. 26). After beating a few men in a game of poker, character Fleur Pillager is physically and sexually assaulted. Violence against Native American women does not only exist on the written page. However, because of…

Imagine having your whole family being humiliated on the internet and there is nothing that can be done about it. This scenario in particular happened to a family in the documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of a Connected World. In the documentary Werner Herzog examines the digital landscape in the world. The scenario of the tragedy that happens in the documentary is explained the section “The Dark Side”. The Dark Side expresses the bad and horrible effects of the internet, which includes…

with victims who went through rough experiences can go through psychological issues like memory loss. In today’s society there has been a focus on a special category of crime. These crimes consist of crime against women (crimes such as date rape, stalking, abuse and etc.), crime against elderly, hate crime (race, disabilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and religion), corporate or white-collar crime (crimes committed by respected business men/women in attempt to seek more money and they…

Would you perform an exceedingly perilous deed merely for fun? In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem, Dill, and Scout did that very thing, not to their best good. The story took place in the late 1940’s in a sleepy town in Maycomb County, Alabama. Boo Radley, whose real name was Arthur Radley, lived three houses down from the Finches, and Boo occupied that house without ever coming out for 15 years, carefully guarded by his father, until his father passed away, and then by his brother,…

This in turn makes the men more capable of committing IPV due to their inability to cope with the loss of control over the relationship (Baldry, 2008). In the event that the man and woman are separated, many of the perpetrators will engage in stalking or other controlling behaviors. This is due to the feelings of abandonment, extreme jealousy, perception of betrayal, obsessive thinking, possessiveness, and propriatariness in part of the perpetrator (Baldry, 2008). Having children in a…

on our front door. As soon as I opened the door my sister pushed me aside and slammed the door shut. She stood there for a moment gasping for air. I had a strong feeling something was unwelcome. She said with unease, “Francisco is outside, he is stalking me!” My stomach sank when I heard the news of my father’s arrival. Within seconds, he was on the other end of that door shouting threats and demanding to be let inside. I could hear him smash liquor bottles on our front door, and curse as he…

sexual abuse. Physical abuse is “any intentional and unwanted contact with you or something close to your body” examples of this would be punching, throwing objects, or forcing you to perform a sexual act. Examples of emotional abuse are threats, stalking and constant monitoring. It may also involve name calling, making you feel guilty or deciding who you are allowed to see. The definition of sexual abuse is an action that pressures a person to perform a sexual act that they do not want to. This…

the area of fan studies, is still relatively small and, in particular, without the benefit of field research. Further, as Duffett (2014, 164, 167) remarks, aspects of the study of celebrity in fan studies is skewed by a disproportionate focus on stalking cases at the expense of examining other aspects of celebrity fans and, in celebrity studies, very little attention is given to fans. In terms of the market relevance of dead celebrities, they continually out earn living celebrities and the…

disguise, when he met up with actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to turn to acting, which culminated in Depp's film debut in the low-budget horror film, Pesadilla en la calle del infierno (1984), where he played a teenager who falls prey to dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger. In 1987 he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher in the role of undercover cop Tommy Hanson in…