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What does stalking look like?
Department / Organization: Institutional Equity & Title IX
for today’s NSAM post, we will look at definitions and examples
Stalking means engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to (1) Fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others; or (2) Suffer substantial emotional distress.
Examples of behavior that may constitute stalking include, but are not limited to:
Making a credible threat to another person and repeatedly following, approaching, contacting, communicating in any form, or surveilling that person or a friend or a member of that person’s immediate family; that would cause a reasonable person feel fear or suffer serious emotional distress.
The most common stalking behaviors reported by college students stalking victims include:
*Unwanted voice or text messages (45%) *Unwanted emails or social media (44%) *Being approached or seeing the stalker show up at places when the victim did not want them to be there (37%) *Stalker created a fake online profile pretending to be the victim (24%) *Calls, texts, e-mails in which the stalker makes the contact seem like is coming from someone else, also known as spoofing (21%) *Had private or identifying information published publicly online, also known as doxing (16%) *Nonconsensual sharing of intimate images (16%)
Sources: Fedina et al (2020); Brady and Griffin (2019)
To report an instance of stalking visit the website included this post or email titleix@mines.edu.