TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Persistent harassment: targets and perpetrators among young adults
JO  - Victims and offenders
A1  - Grangeia, Helena
A1  - Matos, Marlene
SP  - 102
EP  - 121
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
N2  - In Portugal, stalking has recently been recognized as a crime. This study used an online survey to ask 3,367 college students about their experiences of persistent harassment and targets' and perpetrators' perceptions of fear and conduct legitimacy. Targets (34.5%) typically mentioned that they had experienced a frightening experience but considered it to have been wrong but not very serious. Perpetrators (8.9%) mostly perceived that their targets had not experienced fear and judged their own conduct to have been normal. Ordinal logistic regressions indicated that intimate partner stalking, targets' fear, and threatening and violent behaviors predicted less conduct legitimization for both targets and perpetrators.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1556-4886
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2016.1268987
ID  - ref1
ER  -