Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
Statistics on stalking:
• More than 1 million women and 400,000 men are stalked annually in the United States.
• 87 percent of stalkers are men.
• 50 percent of female victims and 30 percent of male victims are stalked by an intimate partner.
• 81 percent of women stalked by a current or former intimate partner are also physically assaulted by the partner; 31 percent of women are sexually assaulted by that partner.
• The average duration of a stalking incident is 1.8 years; if it involves intimate partners, the average duration is 2.2 years.
• 76 percent of women homicide victims had been stalked.
• 85 percent of attempted murder cases against women involve at least one stalking episode within 12 months before the attempted murder.
• 54 percent of women murder victims reported stalking to police before they were killed by their stalker.
• 74 percent of stalking victims are between 18 and 39 years old.
• 23 percent of female victims and 36 percent of male victims are stalked by strangers.
• Women are three times more likely to be stalked than raped.
• Approximately 50 percent of all stalking victims never report their victimization to law enforcement. Only 25 percent get restraining orders against their stalker.
• As of Jan. 1, 1994, all 50 states have anti-stalking laws.
Sources: National Center for Victims of Crimes, U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women.
