Description
Provides an authoritative overview of stalking behavior perpetrated by parents and its impacts on children
Stalking targeted at one of the child''s parents by the other poses a major psychosocial and physical threat to children''s wellbeing and security. Although interdisciplinary research on stalking has expanded in recent decades, intimate partner/ex-partner stalking has been viewed as an adults only problem.
Ex-Partner Stalking and Children brings together scholars and practitioners from different disciplines in the field to examine ex-partner stalking as a psychosocial and criminological issue in children''s and young people''s lives. Providing both theoretical and practical perspectives, this comprehensive volume explores approaches for increasing awareness of parental stalking, addressing its impacts on children and young people, and advancing interventions and methods of support for them.
Throughout the text, the authors challenge existing conceptions o