ABSTRACT
Introduction .................................................................................................. 375 Victimization Syndrome............................................................................... 376
The False Stalking Victim ................................................................... 376 False Victimization and Stalking ........................................................ 376 Prevalence of False Victims from Alleged Stalking Cases ................ 377
Stalking Fact or Fantasy?.............................................................................. 378 The Alleging Victim of Stalking ......................................................... 378 Investigating a False Victim Case ....................................................... 378 Psychological Diagnostic Indicators of False Victims...................... .378 False Stalking Victim Descriptors ...................................................... 379 Interviewing the False Victim of Stalking ......................................... 381
Conclusion..................................................................................................... 382 Bibliography .................................................................................................. 382 About the Contributing Author .................................................................. 384
In terms of a legislative initiative that drafted a new legal statute, California lawmakers created a crime for the 1990s called “stalking.” Since then, stalking has received a tremendous amount of professional attention from the criminal justice, law enforcement, and mental health professionals as well as public policy experts and victim advocates.
