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▪Stalking is a prolonged criminal behavior that endangers the victim, his/her family, the community, and also poses a very real threat for workplace violence.
▪One in 12 women are stalked at some point in their lives.
▪A woman is three times more likely to be stalked than raped.
▪Most victims are between the ages of 18 and 29.
▪Between 26.6 and 35.2% of female students and between 14.7 and 18.4% of male students have been stalked.
▪Millions of individuals, both female and male, are secondary targets of stalking.
▪More than 45% of all stalking cases involve disruption within the workplace.
▪Approximately 50% of all stalking victims never report their victimization to law enforcement.
▪Only 25% of all stalking victims obtain restraining orders against their assailants.
▪Approximately 24% of female victims who report to the police have their cases prosecuted. Of these, 54% of the stalkers are convicted.
▪As of January 1, 1994, all fifty states in the U.S. have anti-stalking laws.
▪The Interstate Stalking Punishment and Prevention Act of 1996 makes it a federal offense to engage in stalking behavior across state lines.
▪An estimated 750,000 to 1.25 million women and 200,000 to 600,000 men are stalked annually.
▪Over 10 million men and women had been stalked at least once in their lifetime.
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