Mentally Disordered Offenders in Pursuit of Celebrities and Politicians

Dietz, Park Elliot; Martell, Daniel A.

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“…It was the most powerful discriminating factor in the BRF study (8), correctly classifying 74% of the cases as either approach or nonapproach with an AUC of 0.74 (95% CI, 0.65–0.82). Dietz and Martell (12) similarly found that any grandiose delusion appeared in 60% of all their subjects who inappropriately communicated to celebrities, and 44% demonstrated an excessive sense of self‐importance or uniqueness. Of particular note is their finding that those who approached celebrities were significantly more likely ( χ 2 = 4.85, p < 0.03) to evidence an excessive sense of self‐importance or uniqueness (52%) than those who did not approach (36%).…”

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“…The dominance of the risk domain of violence to the virtual exclusion of all others (such as escalation, persistence, recidivism, and psychological damage) in such research may also have biased further research questions in the field. In addition, the two first and ground‐breaking peer‐reviewed scientific papers in the field (1,3) did not include important findings, particularly with regard to mental illness, that were contained in their original U.S. government report from which these papers were drawn (12), which has not been easily available to researchers in this field. A further consideration is that the studies of stalkers in the general population have, until recently, given little attention to the issue of approach (13), which might otherwise have stimulated comparative interest in those concerned with abnormal approaches and communications to the prominent.…”

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Factors Associated with Escalation and Problematic Approaches Toward Public Figures*

Meloy

James²,

Mullen³

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Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Detailed comparison of factors associated with abnormal approach to the prominent and with escalation from communication to approach has not hitherto been undertaken. This partially reflects the failure of individual studies to adopt compatible terminologies. This study involves a careful dissection of six public figure studies, three involving U.S. politicians, two Hollywood celebrities, and one the British Royal Family. Common findings were unearthed across six headings. Approachers were significantly more likely to exhibit serious mental illness, engage in multiple means of communication, involve multiple contacts/targets, and to incorporate into their communication requests for help. They were significantly less likely to use threatening or antagonistic language in their communications, except in those cases involving security breaches. These results emphasize the importance of integrating mental health findings and preventive measures into risk management. Approach should not be regarded as a single behavioral category and has multiple motivations. Future studies should adopt standard terminology, preferably taken from the general stalking research.

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Factors Associated with Escalation and Problematic Approaches Toward Public Figures*

Meloy

James²,

Mullen³

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Journal of Forensic Sciences

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“…The likely reason for this is the desire to maximize the probability of success. And in some cases, direct threats have been shown to decrease the risk of a problematic approach to a public figure (Dietz & Martell, ; Dietz et al, ,b; Meloy et al, ) in large group studies. Once again, however, it is critical to note that a small proportion of direct threateners do attack public figures, and all direct threats should be taken seriously (Hoffmann, Meloy & Sheridan, ; Scalora et al, ; Warren et al, ).…”

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Public Figure Attacks in the United States, 1995–2015

Meloy

Amman

2016

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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An archival descriptive study of public figure attackers in the United States between 1995 and 2015 was undertaken. Fifty-six incidents were identified, primarily through exhaustive internet searches, composed of 58 attackers and 58 victims. A code book was developed which focused upon victims, offenders, pre-attack behaviors including direct threats, attack characteristics, post-offense and other outcomes, motivations and psychological abstracts. The average interrater agreement for coding of bivariate variables was 0.835 (intraclass correlation coefficient). The three most likely victim categories were politicians, judges, and athletes. Attackers were males, many with a psychiatric disorder, most were grandiose, and most had both a violent and nonviolent criminal history. The known motivations for the attacks were often angry and personal, the most common being dissatisfaction with a judicial or other governmental process (23%). In only one case was the primary motivation to achieve notoriety. Lethality risk during an attack was 55%. Collateral injury or death occurred in 29% of the incidents. Only 5% communicated a direct threat to the target beforehand. The term "publicly intimate figure" is introduced to describe the sociocultural blurring of public and private lives among the targets, and its possible role in some attackers' perceptions and motivations. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…The code books (list of factors and their explanation) developed in these studies (e.g. see [24]) may prove to be particularly valuable in this pursuit.…”

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Content Analysis for Proactive Protective Intelligence

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2010

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Mentally Disordered Offenders in Pursuit of Celebrities and Politicians

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Factors Associated with Escalation and Problematic Approaches Toward Public Figures*

Factors Associated with Escalation and Problematic Approaches Toward Public Figures*

Public Figure Attacks in the United States, 1995–2015

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