Cyberstalking: Utilizing What We do Know

Parsons‐Pollard, Nicolle; Moriarty, Laura J.

doi:10.1080/15564880903227644

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“…While no universally accepted definition exists, consensus among researchers working in the area is that cyberstalking victimization is a form of stalking that takes place within an on-line environment using Internet-capable devices to carry out pursuit behaviors (Parsons-Pollard and Moriarty 2009;Reno 1999). Cyberstalking encompasses a number of different types of electronic pursuit behaviors (Bocij 2003;Henson 2010;Reyns 2010).…”

Section: Cyberstalking Victimization Measuresmentioning

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Stalking in the Twilight Zone: Extent of Cyberstalking Victimization and Offending Among College Students

2012

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Over the last decade, researchers have consistently reported that stalking is a disturbing reality for many individuals, especially youths. Cyberstalking, however, has received much less attention from the research community than stalking. Few estimates of cyberstalking victimization or cyberstalking offending have been published. The current study attempts to address these gaps by estimating lifetime prevalence of both cyberstalking victimization and offending among a sample of undergraduates from a large urban university in the Midwest. Results show that 40.8% had experienced cyberstalking victimization, with females, nonwhites, non-heterosexuals, and non-singles disproportionately experiencing cyberstalking. Approximately 4.9% of students had perpetrated cyberstalking, but there were few differences in offending across students' demographic characteristics.

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Section: Cyberstalking Victimization Measuresmentioning

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Stalking in the Twilight Zone: Extent of Cyberstalking Victimization and Offending Among College Students

2012

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“…Cyber stalking refers to ''an escalated form of online harassment directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress and serves no legitimate purpose, the action is to annoy, alarm, and emotionally abuse another person'' [33]. Both 'cyber stalking' and 'online harassment' are used interchangeably throughout the related literature.…”

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How Cyber Stalking and Cyber Bullying Affect Students’ Open Learning

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This paper aims to bridge the literature gap concerning the use of social media to conduct collaboration learning and explore its effect on student performance through cyberstalking (CS) and cyberbullying (CB). To achieve the study objective, this study employed a questionnaire as the main data collection method and distributed it to 538 university students based on both the technology acceptance model and constructivism theory, all of whom use social media. The findings were obtained via a quantitative research method, structural equation modeling. This study found a significant relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived enjoyment with social media use for open learning. However, this study found a negative relationship from social media use on open learning that was dampened by CB, which is considered a dampening factor. Also, open learning was reported to be negatively influenced by perceived usefulness as CS was found to dampen the relationship with open learning. INDEX TERMS Cyber stalking and cyber bullying, social media use, open learning.

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“…While most states do not have cyberstalking statutes per se, cyberstalking can be and has been prosecuted under existing stalking and harassment statutes (Goodno, 2007;Fox et al, 2011b). In general, cyberstalking can be defined as repeated pursuit involving electronic or Internet-capable devices, such as mobile phones, laptop computers, or electronic tablets (Goodno, 2007;Parsons-Pollard & Moriarty, 2009;Reyns et al, 2012;Southworth, Finn, Dawson, Fraser, & Tucker, 2007;U. S. Attorney General, 1999).…”

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Protection Against Pursuit: A Conceptual and Empirical Comparison of Cyberstalking and Stalking Victimization Among a National Sample

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Cyberstalking is a relatively understudied area in criminology, with no consensus among scholars as to whether it represents a modified form of stalking or whether it is an entirely new and emerging criminal phenomenon. Using data from the 2006 Supplemental Victimization Survey to the National Crime Victimization Survey, this study compares stalking and cyberstalking victims across several dimensions, including situational features of their experiences and self-protective behaviors. Results indicate that there are significant differences between stalking and cyberstalking victims, including their number of self-protective behaviors adopted, duration of contact with their stalker, financial costs of victimization, and perceived fear at onset. Perceived fear over time, the occurrence of a physical attack, and sex of the victim were all associated with a higher number of self-protective behaviors for cyberstalking victims compared to stalking victims, net of the effect of the control variables. Implications for stalking theory, research, and criminal justice policy are discussed.

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Cyberstalking: Utilizing What We do Know

Cited by 41 publications

References 6 publications

Stalking in the Twilight Zone: Extent of Cyberstalking Victimization and Offending Among College Students

Stalking in the Twilight Zone: Extent of Cyberstalking Victimization and Offending Among College Students

How Cyber Stalking and Cyber Bullying Affect Students’ Open Learning

Protection Against Pursuit: A Conceptual and Empirical Comparison of Cyberstalking and Stalking Victimization Among a National Sample

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