@article{ref1,
title="Risk factors for violence among stalkers",
journal="Journal of threat assessment",
year="2001",
author="Meloy, J. Reid and Davis, Beth and Lovette, Jon",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="3-16",
abstract="A nonrandom sample (N = 59) of &quot;obsessional followers&quot; charged with the crime of stalking and related offenses were studied to determine risk factors for violence. Sixty percent of the sample were physically violent toward person and/or property. Six dichoto-mous variables were selected a priori to determine their relationship, if any, to violence risk based upon previous research: prior sexual intimacy with the victim, major mental disorder, explicit threat toward the victim, personality disorder, chemical abuse/dependency, and prior criminal history. Those who were violent toward person and/or property were significantly more likely to have had a sexually intimate relationship with the victim, to have no major mental disorder, and to have made an explicit threat. A forward stepwise logistic regression found that only one variable-prior sexual intimacy-was necessary to predict violence, with an overall correct classification rate of 90%, sensitivity of 97%, specificity of 78%, positive predictive power of 89%, and negative predictive power of 93%.<p />",
language="",
issn="1533-2608",
doi="10.1300/J177v01n01_02",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J177v01n01_02"
}