Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures
A Psychological and Behavioral Analysis
J. Reid Meloy, Lorraine Sheridan, and Jens Hoffmann
Table of Contents
Foreword. Robert Fein and Bryan Vossekuil
1. Public Figures Stalking: The State of the Science, J. Reid Meloy, Lorraine Sheridan, Jens Hoffmann
Section I: Defining the Risk
2. A Forensic Investigation of Those Who Stalk Celebrities, J. Reid Meloy, Kris Mohandie, Mila Green McGowan
3. The Role of Psychotic Illness in Attacks on Public Figures, Paul E. Mullen, David V. James, J. Reid Meloy, Michele T. Pathe, Frank R. Farnham, Lulu Preston, Brian Darnley
4. Homicidal Celebrity Stalkers: Dangerous Obsessions with Nonpolitical Public Figures, Louis B. Schlesinger, V. Blair Mesa
5. On Public Figure Howlers, Frederick S. Calhoun, Stephen W. Weston
6. Stalking, Threatening and Attacking Corporate Figures, Jens Hoffmann, Lorraine Sheridan
7. The Public Figure Assassin as Terrorist, James Biesterfeld, J. Reid Meloy
Section II: Explaining the Risk
8. Contributions from Attachment Theory and Pschoanalysis to Advance Understanding of Public Figure Stalking and Attacking, Jens Hoffmann, J. Reid Meloy
9. Celebrities as Victims of Stalking, Jens Hoffmann, Lorraine Sheridan
10. Psychopathy and Predatory Stalking of Public Figures, Mary Ellen O'Toole, Sharon S. Smith, Robert D. Hare
11. Two Case Studies of Corporate-Celebrity Victims: The Stalking of Steven Spielberg and Stephen Wynn, J. Reid Meloy, Kris Mohandie
12. Toward the Measurement and Profiling of Celebrity Worship, John Maltby, David Giles
13. Fanning the Flames of Fandom: Celebrity Worship, Parasocial Interaction, and Stalking, Brian H. Spitzberg, William R. Cupach
Section III: Managing the Risk
14. Operations of the LAPD Threat Management Unit, Jeff Dunn
15. Risk Assessment of Public Figure Stalkers, P. Randall Kropp, Stephen D. Hart, David R. Lyon
16. Preventing Assassination: Psychiatric Consultation to the United States Secret Service, Robert T.M. Phillips
17. Offender Profiling and Celebrity Stalking Cases, Karl Roberts
18. Prosecuting Celebrity Stalkers, Rhonda Saunders, Sean Wainwright
19. Use of Threat Assessment for the Protection of the United States Congress, Mario J. Scalora, William Zimmerman, David G. Wells
20. From Violent Words to Violent Deeds: Assessing Risk from FBI Threating Communication Cases, Sharon S. Smith
Index