A Study of Women Who Stalk

A Study of Women Who Stalk

CRITIQUE 1
Summary of the article
The title of the research article is “A study of women who stalk” that was written
by Rosemary Purcell, Michele Pathe, and Paul in the year 2001. This journal paper is
completely based on the stalking and researchers discussed the stalking behaviours and
associated violence with stalking (Purcell, Pathe&, & Mullen, 2001). The major objective
of this research study is to examine the fundamental concept behind the women
stalking and evaluate the counter parts of women stalkers in motivation, propensity and
behaviour for violence. A survey has been conducted by the researchers in order to
gather the viewpoints of other participants and women and critically analysed the
concept of stalking along with the women who stalk.
Critique
This research paper identified that the primary perpetrators of this crimes are
males and numbers of victims are females. It is observed that stalking is defined as
gender neutral behaviour. The researchers argued that stalking by females is not a
common problem (Alsaker, Moen, Baste, & Morken, 2016). Community based
investigation examined that females are described as perpetrators in 12 to 14% of
cases.
Buhi, Clayton, & Surrency, (2009) conducted a survey and analysed that more
than 32% of participants indicated that major female was doing anti-stalking and six of
women were defined as erotomanic. But, the researchers identified that women stalkers
were outnumbered by men stalkers and the majority of participants suggested that
stalking by a female is a very common process (Tjaden, 2009).Therefore, this is the good
aspect of this journal paper because other researchers did not provide effective
evidence and information but this paper supported their evidence through a survey.
Dardis, Amoroso, & Iverson, (2017) also provided their views on this topic and
identified that more than 33% of stalkers described to a forensic psychiatry clinic were
women and this rate is growing rapidly in the worldwide (Reyns, et al., 2016). It has
been found those men fatalities claim that their grievances have been belittled and few
participants’ shows that they must be privileged by whole care.

CRITIQUE 2
According to the authors in the same cases of pestering by females and the
committee is directly interrogated with experts often unsuitably supposing a
homosexual reason. From the recent study, it has been found that females are seldom
persecuted for stalking offences and stalking by females has yet to be afforded the
degree of seriousness linked to the problem of harassment (Fox, Gover, & Kaukinen,
2009). This journal paper discusses a team of women stalkers and compares them to a
men stalker team in order to evaluate various demographic characteristics, techniques,
or rates of linked assault and threats (Woodlock, 2017).
As compared with the other research papers this study provided in-depth
analysis about women stalking which is one of the good aspects of this paper (Katz, &
Rich, 2015). Moreover, the authors supported their evidence by using key findings and
results of previous investigations (Showalter, 2016). The theories and cases used in this
paper were assessed by one or more journal papers and involved the viewpoints of men
and women about research topic (Lambert, Smith, Geistman, Cluse-Tolar, & Jiang,
2013). According to the authors, a group of women stalker was found and compared
with the male stalker which can help for a better understanding of women stalking. The
major bad aspect of this journal paper is that the researchers did not involve any
literature section due to which readers are not able to analyse the findings of previous
papers.
But Lyndon, Bonds-Raacke, & Cratty, (2011) conducted a literature review along
with the survey that helped them for understanding the fundamental concept behind
the women stalking. In this journal paper around 190 stalkers referred to the clinic
during the study duration in which 21% of participants were women. From the survey,
it has been gathered that the women stalkers were less likely as compared to the male
stalkers and it is growing rapidly in the worldwide (Valls, Puigvert, Melgar, & Garcia-
Yeste, 2016).
Moreover, the diagnostic profile of women stalkers did not differ effectively
rather than men stalkers and in 23% of the cases, the individual was a former intimate
partner (McEwan, Mullen, & MacKenzie, 2009). Me&nard, & Pincus, (2012) used less
sampling size due to which they were not found the key aspects linked with the women
stalkers and provided less information about the research topic. After analysing this
research study it has been identified that the researchers compared the demographic