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Stalkers provide an exceptional challenge for victims, police and the legal system. Discuss. The layperson may not consider stalking as a serious crime. In fact it may be thought of as a new crime only involving famous people. However, it is far from being a new crime and has even been termed an 'old crime' (Flynn, 1993; cited in Fritz, 1995). The reality really being that it is an old behaviour only recently having been made into a crime. It is only the awareness of the crime in recent years that has increased. This has also helped shape the perception of it being new and primarily a celebrity problem. The unfortunate thing is that the initial increased awareness came about by a tragic incident in 1989 when an actress, Rebecca Schaeffer, was murdered by a stalker (McGuire and Wraith 2000). Be that as it may it did spark increased interest into...

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