ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nature of stalking from social, psychological, behavioural, and clinical and public policy perspectives in the light of related theory, research and practice. It presents the key issues of stalking from the university student perspective by discussing the prevalence and definition of stalking, stalking behaviour and violence, victim-stalker relationships. However, some theoretical approaches have been proposed to understand and explain the development of stalking behaviour such as attachment theory, relational goal pursuit theory, and routine activity theory. On a public policy level, when national programmes against violence are planned, violence against youth should be taken into account as a major issue in light of the national and international victimization surveys and literature supported by the results of the present study. One of the first steps that university authorities can take towards youth-violence prevention is that they acknowledge their role in preventing, reporting and taking action to prevent violence including stalking and related behaviour.
