Background: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is an important public health challenge. In
recent years, there has been a greater awareness concerning this phenomenon, its causes …

In the last decade, online social networking websites have become immensely popular
worldwide, with the number of users growing exponentially. With a social network account …

Abstract The Dark Tetrad traits (ie, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, sadism) are
associated with antisocial online behaviors. However, the mediating role of these behaviors …

Building upon Eck and Clarke's (2003) ideas for explaining crimes in which there is no face-
to-face contact between victims and offenders, the authors developed an adapted lifestyle …

Awards and Praise for the first edition: Recipient of the 2006 International Association for
Relationship Research (IARR) Book Award" This text, as it presently stands, is THE go-to …

Partner abuse research over the past two decades has divided violent, threatening, or
abusive phenomena into discrete areas of interest to researchers that, although distinct, are …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Cyberstalking is a relatively understudied area in criminology, with no consensus among
scholars as to whether it represents a modified form of stalking or whether it is an entirely …

The present study examines the guardianship concept from routine activity theory with
respect to its utility in reducing the risk for cyberstalking victimization. Offline guardianship is …

The author provides one of the first empirical examinations of cyberstalking perpetration.
The extent and nature of cyberstalking are investigated using a sample of college students …