One in six women and one in 19 men around the country have been plagued by a stalker at least once according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the data suggests that the perpetrators in the vast majority of these cases in Texas and across the U.S. were individuals who the victims either knew or had been romantically involved with. Only one in eight female stalking victims reported being harassed by a stranger.
Most jurisdictions define stalking as a series of actions taken against another person that could reasonably cause that person to be afraid. Actions that could be considered stalking behavior include nonconsensual communication, leaving the victim items such as gifts, lying in wait for the victim, acts of vandalism, spreading rumors about the victim and remaining in visual or physical proximity to the victim without consent.
