Mentally Disordered Offenders in Pursuit of Celebrities and Politicians
Description
These data were collected to develop a means of identifying
those individuals most likely to be dangerous to others because of
their pursuit of public figures. Another objective of the study was to
gather detailed quantitative information on harassing and threatening
communications to public figures and to determine what aspects of
written communications are predictive of future behavior. Based on the
fact that each attack by a mentally disordered person in which an
American public figure was wounded had occurred in connection with a
physical approach within 100 yards, the investigators reasoned that
accurate predictions of such physical approaches could serve as
proxies for the less feasible task of accurate prediction of attacks.
The investigators used information from case files of subjects who had
pursued two groups of public figures, politicians and celebrities. The
data were drawn from the records of the United States Capitol Police
and a prominent Los Angeles-based security consulting firm, Gavin de
Becker, Inc. Information was gathered from letters and other
communications of the subjects, as well as any other sources
available, such as police records or descriptions of what occurred
during interviews. The data include demographic information such as
sex, age, race, marital status, religion, and education, family
history information, background information such as school and work
records, military history, criminal history, number of communications
made, number of threats made, information about subjects' physical
appearance, psychological and emotional evaluations, information on
travel/mobility patterns, and approaches made.
Resources
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Description |
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ICPSR06007.v2 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06007.v2 |
Tags
- celebrities
- politicians
- crime-prediction
- assault
- mental-disorders
- police-records
- stalking
- stalkers
- harassment
- public-figures