For today’s stalking awareness post, we are sharing stalking behaviors and impacts

Young adults ages 18-24 experience the highest rates of stalking among adults.

Among college student stalking survivors:
o 92% tell friends and/or family
o 29% contact a campus program or resource for help

The most common stalking behaviors reported by college students stalking victims include:
45% unwanted calls and messages
44% unwanted e-mail and social media
37% Being approached or seeing the stalker show up at places when the victim did not want them to be there
24% stalker created a fake profile pretending to be the victim
16% having private or identifying information published publicly online (doxing)
16% nonconsensual sharing of intimate images

Most college student victims are stalked by someone they know. The most common stalkers are former intimate partners (33%), closely followed by someone the victim knows or recognizes but is not a friend (31%), then friends (25%), classmates (18%), and current intimate partners (14%) (AAUW, 2020)

Academic-related impacts of stalking include:
-difficulty concentrating in class, on assignments, and during exams
-missing meetings and extra-curricular activities
-dropping classes
-lower grades
-considering dropping out of school
-changing living situation, like moving out of residence halls (JAMT, 2017)

Stalking is prohibited by Mines’ Policies, and is a crime in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Territories.

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