Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture, and Criminal Justice (Social Problems and Social Issues)

In this fi rst book on the subject by a sociologist, Dunn offers a wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. In exploring the ways in which we socially construct and confer meaning upon intimate violence, the author draws upon interviews with stalkers and victims, courtroom testimony, analyses of case reports, and an independent survey instrument that reveals ambivalence of the prevailing culture to the problem. Courting Disaster will be valuable in women's studies and counseling courses and a useful text in sociology and criminology.Jennifer L. Dunn is the author of 'Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture, and Criminal Justice (Social Problems and Social Issues)', published 2002 under ISBN 9780202306612 and ISBN 0202306615.