UNIFORM CRIME REPORT

Running Head : CRIMINAL JUSTICE : STALKING

A Review on Stalking Offenses and the Measures Taken by the Justice System

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A Review on Stalking Offenses and the Measures Taken by the Justice System

On a daily basis , different members of society experience harassment whether it may be racial , sexual , physical , and so forth . A very common type of harassment that is reported to police stations daily is stalking

Carol E . Jordan from the Kentucky Governor 's Office of Child Abuse and

br Domestic Violence Service and her team conducted a study on stalking and its perpetrators , and how the justice systems worked in such cases . Her titled Stalking : An Examination of the Criminal Justice Response (2003 ) focused on the way stalking is documented , but given insufficient attention in case disposition , and how prior criminal and protective histories influence the processing of stalking cases by the court .The served two purposes : firstly , to examine how one state 's criminal justice system disposes of stalking cases (as in its dismissal rates , types of amendments , and conviction rates ) by examining dispositions for felony and misdemeanor stalking charges for all males charged with stalking in one state in fiscal year 1999

The second purpose is for the examination of the incarceration and prior offense histories of stalkers , the temporal relationship between prior offenses and the stalking offense , and the interplay between criminal and protective histories and the final disposition of stalking cases

The study includes...