Domestic Violence can be defined as the vicious behaviour used by one person in a relationship to control the other. Partners maybe married or in a dating relationship, could be gay, heterosexual or lesbian. According to social scientists, there is a link between domestic violence and stalking. Stalking can be described as continual following or contacting a person in a threatening and annoying way which can make the person feel insecure. Mostly people that become the target of these stalkers are their ex-intimate partners and thus we can observe/establish the connection between domestic violence and stalking, which has recently become a legal construct. (Douglas and Dutton, 2001)
Most stalkers are psychopathic batterers who are introverts with violent behaviour. These are people are also termed as "borderline" or "cyclical" batterers. Both the batterers and stalkers have the Cluster B personality disorder, the characteristics includes being overly dramatic, having attachment trauma, weak ego strength, jealousy, anger issues, and abusive behaviour. These people have been observed to react threateningly when they face rejection or abandonment. According to the socialists, Douglas and Dutton, if we carry out proper research on borderline/cyclical batterers and stalkers, we can use our results to help put an end to...
in 1997, the statistics show that out of studied group of 120 people charged with domestic violence (who were attending a treatment program), 30% of these people confessed that they had stalked their partners. Another report, which shows that domestic batterers are likely to stalk their partners, was carried out by Dutton et al. in 1996, in which it was discovered that relationship intrusiveness and harassment were part of the Canadian Criminal Code along with victims' ratings of their stalkers; jealousy and abusiveness that clearly shows that these two are correlated.
Statistical analysis shows that their ex-partners stalked women for a considerable period following which these women became the victim of feminicide. 76% of women were stalked before their murder while 85% of the victims of stalking survived murder attempt. 89% of feminicide victims were battered as well as stalked before their murder while 54% of them reported stalking to the police before their murder (NCADV). Because of these crimes, California took the initiative in 1990 to pass legislation against stalking and later several other countries also declared 'stalking' as a crime. To…
