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Stalking: Community, Psychology and behaviors & Laws on harassment and stalking

Stalking is unwanted or repeated surveillance or contact by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The term stalking is used with some differing definitions in psychiatry and psychology, as well as in some legal…

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Stalking topic overview

The analysis highlights Community, Psychology and behaviors and Laws on harassment and stalking as prominent areas in the source structure around Stalking.

Related topics
125
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
132
Extracted relationships
337
Concept neighborhoods
33
Bridge connections
132

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Psychology and behaviors · 47 topics
Laws on harassment and stalking · 25 topics
Overview · 22 topics
United States · 12 topics
Prevalence and demographics · 11 topics
Definitions · 7 topics
Germany · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Definitions

Psychology and behaviors

Prevalence and demographics

Germany

United States

Laws on harassment and stalking

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Stalking connects Entity context

The extracted context around Stalking shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Stalking → Abuse, Academic Press, Annotated, April, Archived, August, Australian Institute, Boca Raton, Bureau, Campbell, Carolyn, Carson, Cite, CiteSeerX, CRC Press, Crime, Criminal Justice Responses Conference, Criminology, Davis, December Another extracted example is Stalking → Act, Also, California, California Penal Code Section, DMV, DPPA, LAPD, LAPD Captain Robert Martin, Los Angeles Police Department, Motor Vehicles, Municipal Court Judge John, Orange County, Rebecca Schaeffer, Representative Ed Royce, Richard Farley, Saldana, Schaeffer, State Department, The, The DPPA. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Stalking

Top relations

related to Further reading · 64
Stalking → Abuse, Academic Press, Annotated, April, Archived, August, Australian Institute, Boca Raton, Bureau, Campbell, Carolyn, Carson, Cite, CiteSeerX, CRC Press, Crime, Criminal Justice Responses Conference, Criminology, Davis, December
related to United States · 26
Stalking → Act, Also, California, California Penal Code Section, DMV, DPPA, LAPD, LAPD Captain Robert Martin, Los Angeles Police Department, Motor Vehicles, Municipal Court Judge John, Orange County, Rebecca Schaeffer, Representative Ed Royce, Richard Farley, Saldana, Schaeffer, State Department, The, The DPPA
related to Russia · 21
Stalking → Also, Article, As, Compulsion, Crimes Against Information Security, Criminal Code, For, However, In, Russia, Russian Federation, Russian Federation Extortion, Russian Federation Intentional, Russian Federation Violation, Sexual Actions, So, The, This, Threats, Violation
related to Taiwan · 18
Stalking → Anyone, Article, DPP, During, Harassment Prevention Act, However, In, In Taiwan, It, Legislative, Legislative Yuan, Modern Women's Foundation, New Taiwan Dollars, Paragraph, Stalking Prevention Act, Subparagraphs, Under, Violators
related to Types of victims · 18
Stalking → Among, Australia, Based, Casual, Certain, In, Most, Mullen, Pathé, Prior, Professional, Strangers, The, These, This, Victims, When, Workplace
related to Australia · 14
Stalking → Australian, Every Australian, Freckelton, In, Most Australian, Punishments, Queensland, Queensland's, South Australian, The, There, Unlike, US, Victoria
related to False claims of stalking, "gang stalking" and delusions of persecution · 14
Stalking → Another, Blaauw, Gang, In, Mullen, Netherlands, Of, Pathe, Purcell, Sheridan, The, They, This, UK
related to Gender · 13
Stalking → According, Although, As, Census Bureau, Department, Female, January, Justice, Males, Supplemental Victimization Survey, SVS, This, United States Department
related to England and Wales · 11
Stalking → According, Centre, England, In, March, Metropolitan Police Service, Psychological Medicine, The Crime Survey, The Fixated Threat Assessment, Wales, Younger
related to Cyberstalking · 10
Stalking → Alcohol, Amongst, Cyberstalking, In, In Davis, Lucks, Men, Ménard, Out, Pincus

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

victims stalkers harassment may criminal victim stalked person also cases relationship people act years stalker code states one law women

Stalking relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 337 structured relationships around Stalking. Examples in this analysis include Stalking → is a → attempt to force a personal connection and relationship on a victim and Stalking → is a → series of actions that occur over a period of time.Although stalking is illegal in most areas of the world. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Stalkingis aattempt to force a personal connection and relationship on a victim0.90text
Stalkingis aseries of actions that occur over a period of time.Although stalking is illegal in most areas of the world0.90text
Stalkingis aextension of coercive control and is more likely if there was controlling behaviour or intimidation during the prior relationship.Psychological effects on victims91.50.90text
Stalkingis aform of mental assault0.90text
Stalkingis agender-neutral behavior0.90text
Stalkingis aset of persecutory delusions in which those affected believe they are being followed0.90text
Stalkingis aoffense under section 120a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice0.90text
sending a text is not usually illegalinstance ofan action0.80text
but is illegal when frequently repeated to an unwilling recipientinstance ofan action0.80text
domesticinstance ofThe study found that the Protection from Harassment Act is being used to deal with a variety of behaviour0.80text
inter-neighbour disputesinstance ofThe study found that the Protection from Harassment Act is being used to deal with a variety of behaviour0.80text
health care providersinstance ofCertain professions0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Stalking bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Victims, Also and Act. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Stalking
    • Victims
    • Also
    • Act
    • Cases
    • Offence
    • States
    • Victim
    • Criminal
    • Stalkers
    • Female
    • United
    • People
  • stalking
    • Victims
    • Also
    • Act
    • Cases
    • Offence
    • States
    • Victim
    • Criminal
    • Stalkers
    • Female
    • United
    • People
  • harassment
    • Act
    • Protection
    • Article
    • Offence
    • Criminal
    • Fine
    • Stalking
    • Person
    • Female
    • Imprisonment
    • States
    • Code
  • criminal offense
    • Code
    • Article
    • Years
    • Cases
    • Imprisonment
    • Offence
    • Harassment
    • Two
    • Person
    • Fine
    • States
    • Behaviour
  • protection of freedoms act 2012
    • Protection
    • Harassment
    • Offence
    • Person
    • Fear
    • Violence
    • Stalking
    • Article
    • Law
    • States
    • Found
    • Behaviour
  • protection from harassment act 1997
    • Protection
    • Act
    • Harassment
    • Article
    • Offence
    • Criminal
    • Fine
    • Stalking
    • Person
    • Fear
    • Violence
    • Law
  • criminal justice and licensing (scotland) act 2010
    • Code
    • Protection
    • Article
    • Harassment
    • Years
    • Cases
    • Imprisonment
    • Offence
    • Two
    • Person
    • Fear
    • Fine
  • united states
    • States
    • United
    • Also
    • Female
    • Law
    • Act
    • Victims
    • Male
    • Two
    • Women
    • Offence
    • Stalker

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Stalking, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Stalking with Psychology and behaviors. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
StalkingPsychology and behaviors · splits 85 ⟂ 48
StalkingLaws on harassment and stalking · splits 107 ⟂ 26
StalkingOverview · splits 110 ⟂ 23
StalkingUnited States · splits 120 ⟂ 13
StalkingPrevalence and demographics · splits 121 ⟂ 12
StalkingDefinitions · splits 125 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Stalking

Nodes133
Edges132
Triples337
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.015038
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Stalking to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Community, Psychology and behaviors & Laws on harassment and stalking, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Stalking · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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