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Statewide Study of Stalking and Its Criminal Justice Response

NCJ Number
228354
Date Published
May 2009
Length
106 pages
Annotation
This analysis of the crime of stalking of females by their intimate partners in Rhode Island over multiple years focused on whether police identified stalking cases from among reported domestic-violence cases, whether stalking cases differed from general domestic-violence cases reported to police, and whether it made any difference in case outcomes if police identified domestic-violence cases as involving stalking.
Abstract
This analysis of the crime of stalking of females by their intimate partners in Rhode Island over multiple years focused on the handling and outcome of such cases.

Date Published: May 1, 2009