ABSTRACT

Introduction .................................................................................................. 208 Are College Students Vulnerable? ................................................................ 211 Definition Issues: Clarifying Terms and Providing Definitions ................ 214

The Nature of Stalking........................................................................ 214 Obsessive Relational Intrusion ........................................................... 215 Unwanted Pursuit Behaviors .............................................................. 221

Who Gets “Counted” as Having Experienced Pursuit Behaviors? ............ 222 Who Gets “Counted” as Having Perpetrated Pursuit Behaviors? ............. 225 The Nature of Pursuit Behaviors ................................................................. 228 Pursuit Behaviors: Another Stage in the Cycle of Dating and

Intimate Partner Violence................................................................... 230 Impact of Pursuit Behaviors on Students ................................................... 230 Effects Pursuit Behaviors Have on Student Victims .................................. 231

Coping Strategies................................................................................. 231 The Use of Legal Interventions .......................................................... 232

Implications for College-Level Intervention and Prevention.................... 232 Recognition of Pursuit Behavior — Victimization and Perpetration

among College Students ..................................................................... 233 Content of Pursuit Behavior Education and Anti-Pursuit Behavior Policy .................................................................................... 233

Conclusion..................................................................................................... 234 Bibliography .................................................................................................. 235 About the Contributing Author .................................................................. 238 Acknowledgment .......................................................................................... 238

Attention to the victimization of college and university students has been prompted by rising fears that campuses are not safe havens from criminal activity but instead hot spots for violence. The lobbying efforts of student advocacy groups, especially Security On Campus founded by the parents of Jeanne Ann Clery who was murdered in her Lehigh dormitory room in 1986, led to the passage of state-level and federal-level legislation to address college student victimization. In 1988, for example, Pennsylvania became the first state to pass a campus security reporting law (24 Pa. Cons. Stat. section 2501-3). Over a dozen states have since passed campus crime disclosure legislation (Bromley and Fisher, 2000).