When does a concerned interest in someone’s activities become stalking?
Are some kinds of observance allowable and appropriate? Which ones aren’t?
To stalk is, ‘the action, practice, or crime of harassing or persecuting a person with unwanted, obsessive, and usually threatening attention over an extended period of time.’ (OED online).
The clip from peep show features a man constantly attempting to hack into the email account of a female co-worker in order to gather information so that he can more comfortably flirt with her, although set in a light hearted comic situation it does raise questions over appropriate contact with others.
I think that an allowable observance is any observance that both people are comfortable with and are aware of.
A concerned interest in someone’s activities that leads to criminal activity however threatening such as breech of privacy, which is the case in peep show can be considered as stalking.
I think that any information gathered through accepted interaction with others is allowable concerned interest and the basis of a healthy relationship. If the gathering of this information becomes uncomfortable for the other person then a degree of caution and sensitivity must be taken, to continue interaction with someone who does not want to communicate with you could eventually become harassment.
When communication becomes one sided or in other words does not involve either positive communication with or positive body language from the other person, then at least on some small level, this could be considered stalking as it is hard to define how long an ‘extended period of time’ is.
Are some kinds of observance allowable and appropriate? Which ones aren’t?
To stalk is, ‘the action, practice, or crime of harassing or persecuting a person with unwanted, obsessive, and usually threatening attention over an extended period of time.’ (OED online).
The clip from peep show features a man constantly attempting to hack into the email account of a female co-worker in order to gather information so that he can more comfortably flirt with her, although set in a light hearted comic situation it does raise questions over appropriate contact with others.
I think that an allowable observance is any observance that both people are comfortable with and are aware of.
A concerned interest in someone’s activities that leads to criminal activity however threatening such as breech of privacy, which is the case in peep show can be considered as stalking.
I think that any information gathered through accepted interaction with others is allowable concerned interest and the basis of a healthy relationship. If the gathering of this information becomes uncomfortable for the other person then a degree of caution and sensitivity must be taken, to continue interaction with someone who does not want to communicate with you could eventually become harassment.
When communication becomes one sided or in other words does not involve either positive communication with or positive body language from the other person, then at least on some small level, this could be considered stalking as it is hard to define how long an ‘extended period of time’ is.
This is a usefull link, although the aim of the page is to offer advice to those being stalked it does give us more of an insight into the dark world of stalking and helps underline it as a very real problem in normal society and not just in the celebrity world. It also has some other interesting links too. http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/support/stalking.shtml
This is a great weblog, I posted a comment about stalking here....http://richards87.blogspot.com/
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