STALKING

Four of five stalking victims are women. By comparison, 94% of the stalkers identified by female victims, and 60% of the stalkers identified by male victims, were male.¹²

A study that examined the experiences of female victims stalked by intimate partners found that 72.7% of victims were verbally threatened with physical violence (direct or implied). Almost 46% of victims experienced one or more violent incident by the stalker.  37% of victims sustained physical injuries as a result.³³

Researchers estimated that approximately 1 million women and 400,000 men are stalked each year in the U.S.¹³

Most victims knew their stalker.¹³