"The authors carefully contextualize interview excerpts so that readers--who may well include women looking for help coping with stalking, as well as interested students, professionals, and researchers--can learn from the frequently harrowing personal stories these women share....Likely to become an authoritative sourcebook. Essential. All levels/libraries."--Choice
"This is the premier book on the subject of stalking relationships to date.... This book is a must-read for every practitioner in the mental health field."--Doody's Review Service
"This book makes excellent use of richly textured interview data to illuminate the complexities of partner stalking and its profound consequences for every aspect of victims' lives. The topics covered are comprehensive and closely linked to previous research. This makes a significant contribution to the literature on stalking and intimate partner violence, which is shown to be closely related in this work. Of special interest are the redefinition of stalking to include behaviors that take place during the relationship as well as afterward and the particular difficulties faced by rural women being stalked. The policy recommendations are sensitive and sensible. I recommend this book for scholars and practitioners alike."
-Jennifer L. DunnAuthor, Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture, and Criminal Justice, Professor, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
"The Logan, Cole, Shannon and Walker book is extensively researched, clearly and accessibly written, and reveals the considerable collective expertise of the authors. It seamlessly traverses the scholarly world of the theoretical and empirical with the more tangible world of women who have been stalked by a partner. The women's narratives are carefully woven throughout the book to illustrate the day-to-day experiential process of relationship stalking victimization. By intersecting the scholarly with the experiential, deep insights are offered into the process of relationship stalking in ways that are carefully connected and responsible to the social scientific research. Individuals come alive in the research, and the research comes alive in the voices of the victims. The writing is lucid and well-organized, and the research is fully up-to-date, making this book an essential examination of relationship stalking for victims, counselors, law enforcement, and researchers."
-Brian H. Spitzberg, PhD, Professor, San Diego State University, School of Communication
From the Publisher
"This book makes excellent use of richly textured interview data to illuminate the complexities of partner stalking and its profound consequences for every aspect of victims' lives. The topics covered are comprehensive and closely linked to previous research. This makes a significant contribution to the literature on stalking and intimate partner violence, which is shown to be closely related in this work. Of special interest are the redefinition of stalking to include behaviors that take place during the relationship as well as afterward and the particular difficulties faced by rural women being stalked. The policy recommendations are sensitive and sensible. I recommend this book for scholars and practitioners alike." -Jennifer L. Dunn Author, Courting Disaster: Intimate Stalking, Culture, and Criminal Justice Professor, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale "The Logan, Cole, Shannon and Walker book, The Women of Partner Stalking: Threat, Danger, and Survival, is extensively researched, clearly and accessibly written, and reveals the considerable collective expertise of the authors. It seamlessly traverses the scholarly world of the theoretical and empirical with the more tangible world of women who have been stalked by a partner. The women's narratives are carefully woven throughout the book to illustrate the day-to-day experiential process of relationship stalking victimization. By intersecting the scholarly with the experiential, deep insights are offered into the process of relationship stalking in ways that are carefully connected and responsible to the social scientific research. Individuals come alive in the research, and the research comes alive in the voices of the victims. The writing is lucid and well-organized, and the research is fully up-to-date, making this book an essential examination of relationship stalking for victims, counselors, law enforcement, and researchers." -Brian H. Spitzberg, PhD Professor, San Diego State University, School of Communication
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About the Author
TK Logan, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky.
Jennifer Cole, MSW, is a doctoral student in Social Work at the University of Kentucky.
Lisa Shannon, MSW, is a doctoral student in Social Work at the University of Kentucky. She is a Research Analyst at the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research.
Robert Walker, MSW, LCSW, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, with conjoint appointments in Social Work and Behavioral Science.
