PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Park Dietz
AU  - Daniel A. Martell
TI  - Commentary: Approaching and Stalking Public Figures—A Prerequisite to Attack
DP  - 2010 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 341--348
VI  - 38
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/38/3/341.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/38/3/341.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2010 Sep 01; 38
AB  - The concept of studying approaches to public figures (i.e., physical pursuit or stalking) arose as a proxy measure to aid in the development of tools to prevent assassination, a low base rate event. In this commentary, we review the origins of this concept and the historical record of public figure attacks in the United States that formed the empirical basis of the concept, we describe case examples of approaches toward public figures in the United States that did not result in injurious attacks, and we provide a synopsis of our findings on the ways in which communications predict approach.