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== Stalking Resources == | |||
Nationally, 7.5 million people are stalked every year. Approximately 1 in 6 women and 1 in 17 men have experienced stalking at some point in their lifetime. ([https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/prevent-stalking/index.html#:~:text=About%201%20in%206%20women,before%20the%20age%20of%2025. CDC, 2015]) | |||
=== Signs of Stalking === | |||
Most stalking is done by someone known to the victim, such as a current or former partner. Yet some victims are stalked by complete strangers. | Most stalking is done by someone known to the victim, such as a current or former partner. Yet some victims are stalked by complete strangers. | ||
Stalking can include a wide array of behaviors: | Stalking can include a wide array of behaviors: | ||
* Does someone always seem to be just around the corner when you are going to work, are out with friends, or in your neighborhood? | |||
* Does someone keep making unwanted phone calls to your home or work? | |||
* Do you find signs that someone has been in or near your home, your car, or your workplace when you were not there? | |||
* Are you receiving repeated letters, gifts, cards, social media posts and/or emails even though you told the sender to stop sending them? | |||
* Has someone tried to get information about you from a third person like a family member, friend, or co-worker? | |||
* Is someone posting information or spreading rumors about you on the internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth? | |||
Taken partially from this comment here https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/117etbz/comment/j9br188/, as well as our own resources: | |||
* https://www.stalkingawareness.org/ | |||
* https://victimconnect.org/ | |||
* https://www.thehotline.org/ | |||
* https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline | |||
* https://www.womenslaw.org/about-abuse/safety-tips/safety-tips-stalking-victims#4 | |||
* https://techsafetyapp.org/home | |||
* https://www.techsafety.org/resources-survivors | |||
* https://privacyrights.org/consumer-guides/online-harassment-cyberstalking | |||
* https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/prevent-stalking/index.html | |||
* https://www.safehorizon.org/get-help/stalking/ | |||
* https://victimsofcrime.org/stalking-resource-center/ | |||
* https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/pubs/helpseries/HelpBrochure_Stalking.html | |||
Please visit this page to learn more about Protective Orders | Please visit this page to learn more about [[Fempired:Protective Orders|Protective Orders]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 12:58, 7 June 2023
Stalking Resources
Nationally, 7.5 million people are stalked every year. Approximately 1 in 6 women and 1 in 17 men have experienced stalking at some point in their lifetime. (CDC, 2015)
Signs of Stalking
Most stalking is done by someone known to the victim, such as a current or former partner. Yet some victims are stalked by complete strangers.
Stalking can include a wide array of behaviors:
- Does someone always seem to be just around the corner when you are going to work, are out with friends, or in your neighborhood?
- Does someone keep making unwanted phone calls to your home or work?
- Do you find signs that someone has been in or near your home, your car, or your workplace when you were not there?
- Are you receiving repeated letters, gifts, cards, social media posts and/or emails even though you told the sender to stop sending them?
- Has someone tried to get information about you from a third person like a family member, friend, or co-worker?
- Is someone posting information or spreading rumors about you on the internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth?
Taken partially from this comment here https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/117etbz/comment/j9br188/, as well as our own resources:
- https://www.stalkingawareness.org/
- https://victimconnect.org/
- https://www.thehotline.org/
- https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline
- https://www.womenslaw.org/about-abuse/safety-tips/safety-tips-stalking-victims#4
- https://techsafetyapp.org/home
- https://www.techsafety.org/resources-survivors
- https://privacyrights.org/consumer-guides/online-harassment-cyberstalking
- https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/prevent-stalking/index.html
- https://www.safehorizon.org/get-help/stalking/
- https://victimsofcrime.org/stalking-resource-center/
- https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/pubs/helpseries/HelpBrochure_Stalking.html
Please visit this page to learn more about Protective Orders.
