Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Stalking – a new categorization of human behaviour
- 2 The epidemiology of stalking
- 3 The victims of stalkers
- 4 Classifying stalkers
- 5 The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker
- 6 The predatory stalker
- 7 Intimacy seekers and incompetent suitors
- 8 The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations
- 9 Same gender stalking
- 10 Stalking by proxy
- 11 False victims of stalking
- 12 Stalking and assault
- 13 Reducing the impact of stalking
- 14 Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking
- 15 Assessing and managing the stalker
- Appendix A Victim services
- Appendix B Important anti-stalking Acts/statutes
- Legal cases and references
- Index
6 - The predatory stalker
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Stalking – a new categorization of human behaviour
- 2 The epidemiology of stalking
- 3 The victims of stalkers
- 4 Classifying stalkers
- 5 The rejected stalker and the resentful stalker
- 6 The predatory stalker
- 7 Intimacy seekers and incompetent suitors
- 8 The erotomanias and the morbid infatuations
- 9 Same gender stalking
- 10 Stalking by proxy
- 11 False victims of stalking
- 12 Stalking and assault
- 13 Reducing the impact of stalking
- 14 Defining and prosecuting the offence of stalking
- 15 Assessing and managing the stalker
- Appendix A Victim services
- Appendix B Important anti-stalking Acts/statutes
- Legal cases and references
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Norman discovered the film maker's address by buying a tourist map of stars' homes. He spent a month watching the mansion … He went to the gates at least four times and was finally arrested as he tried to run from private security guards … Norman boasted to police that he wanted to rape Spielberg while the director's wife … watched … [He] kept diaries about Spielberg's films and family, stockpiled sex toys and made repeated attempts to break into the director's sprawling estate … [When Norman was arrested] he was carrying a ‘rape kit’ containing a knife blade, razor blades, tape and handcuffs … Police also discovered a book with a shopping list of tools they say Norman planned to use on Spielberg, including three eye masks, three sets of handcuffs, four pairs of nipple clips and three dog collars.
Australian newspaper reports from the June 1998 trial of Jonathan Norman, who stalked American film director Steven Spielberg. He is now serving a twenty-five year sentence.The predatory stalker's behaviours are a means to an end, and that end is an attack, usually sexual, on the victim. The predatory stalker prepares for and anticipates the attack in the process of following and observing the victim.
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- Stalkers and their Victims , pp. 98 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000