Adolescent stalking and risk of violence✩

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• Alternative Title:
  J Adolesc
• Personal Author:
  Smith-Darden, Joanne P. ; Reidy, Dennis E. ; Kernsmith, Poco D.
• Description:
  Stalking perpetration and the associated risk for violence among adolescents has generally been neglected. In the present study, 1236 youth completed surveys assessing empirically established stalking indicators, threats and aggression toward stalking victims, dating violence, and violent delinquency. Latent Profile Analysis identified 3 latent classes of boys: non-perpetrators (NP), hyper-intimate pursuit (HIP), and comprehensive stalking perpetrators (CSP) and, and 2 classes for girls: NP and HIP. Boys in the CSP class were the most violent youth on nearly all indices with boys in the HIP class demonstrating an intermediate level of violence compared to NP boys. Girls in the HIP class were more violent than NP girls on all indices. These findings suggest stalking in adolescence merits attention by violence prevention experts. In particular, juvenile stalking may signify youth at risk for multiple forms of violence perpetrated against multiple types of victims, not just the object of their infatuation.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Aggression Female Humans Longitudinal Studies Male Risk Factors Sex Distribution Stalking Surveys And Questionnaires Violence

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• Keywords:
  Dating Violence Juvenile Stalking Peer Violence Youth Stalking
• Source:
  J Adolesc. 52:191-200
• Pubmed ID:
  27641644
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5860636
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CE002115/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  52
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:afe47722a5a8de621fd7e7b729e675ca873f78faa67b6f610e29017bd71f2127
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52644/cdc_52644_DS1.pdf
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