RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Commentary: Approaching and Stalking Public Figures—A Prerequisite to Attack
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 341
OP 348
VO 38
IS 3
A1 Park Dietz
A1 Daniel A. Martell
YR 2010
UL http://jaapl.org/content/38/3/341.abstract
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.