STALKING

Stalking

Stalking

Introduction

The study is related to the article that is stalking, why do people do it. in this context, it is found that some behaviors such as telephone calls, text messages, e-mail, surprise visits and even sending flowers or gifts, may be welcome signs of affection. However, it can sometimes turn into real forms of persecution can limit the freedom of a person to violate his privacy, even reaching the recipient who is frightened in spite of himself. The term stalking comes from the English language and that of the hunter. They include those you stalking and sneaking up on wildlife. In terms of people, this means that one person to approach another constantly against their will. The stalker pursued, harassed or terrorized a fellow human being (Richman, 1996, 37).

Stalkers

Stalkers are people with low self-esteem. They often suffer from personality disorders to be psychotic. This explains why many stalkers totally unreasonable and reasonable arguments against are not receptive. Through her psychotic offenders suffer from a loss of sense of reality. Stalkers often feel humiliated by their victims, whose behavior misjudge, see themselves as victims, or wish to exercise power over others. In short, stalkers are mentally ill and need psychotherapy, and in the case of a psychotic illness, a medical treatment. The stalker who acts compulsively tends to follow their own needs and to deny the reality, progressively damaging their mental health and quality of their social life which deteriorate more and more, little by little that the persecution continues. To become stalker it is necessary to be a known person with whom you had some kind of relationship or even a stranger with whom one has clashed just by chance, perhaps for work reasons (Pryor, 1993, 33).

Critical Analysis

In particular relation to study that is stalking, why do people do it, problems may arise when individuals misperceive the norms they are trying to follow. Two types of cognitive errors may lead to these misperceptions. First, people may display pluralistic ignorance, in which they make an absolute error with regard to estimating others' behavior; risk-taking or negative behavior is often overestimated while prosaically, positive behavior is often underestimated. It is very important to note also that stalking is not a homogenous phenomenon, so it is difficult to retract the harassers harassing a diagnostic category or identify more precisely the presence of a true mental illness reference. The stalkers are not always people with a mental disorder, although there are some forms of persecution that are acted out in the context of a psychopathological picture, this is not always present as a condition there is always an abuse of substances associated with the behavior. According to this theory, individuals behave in accordance with their perceptions of expected behavior, whether the behavior is objectively positive or not.

Importantly, men's reported drinking behavior also increased somewhat over this time period, revealing a behavioral shift that accompanied this attitudinal change and demonstrating that normative misperception can affect both beliefs and ...