Stalking Patterns Between Intimate and Non-Intimate Partners: Results from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey

• In Event: Results from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)

Abstract

The project examined the associations between victim-offender relationships and lifetime experience of intimate partner abuse with stalking and stalking duration. Data from the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey was analyzed. The first logistic regression assessed if lifetime experience of physically aggressive, physically violent, or coercively controlling behaviors by an intimate partner were associated with lifetime stalking experience (N= 10,233). The final two analyses, limited to stalking victims, estimated if ever having a perpetrator that was an intimate partner at both the first and last victimization and if ever having an intimate partner stalker increased the likelihood of stalking lasting more than year (N=3,084). Experience of physical violence (O.R.= 2.29, p < 0.001), physical aggression (O.R. = 1.67, p < 0.001), and coercive control (OR= 2.01, p < 0.001) by an intimate partner were associated with stalking. Respondents who had been stalked by an intimate partner were more likely to report stalking lasting over a year (OR= 2.13, p < 0.001). Experience of intimate partner abuse is associated with lifetime experience of stalking, suggesting overlap between these two behaviors. Among a nationally representative sample, victim-offender relationship remains a significant correlate of stalking duration.

Authors

• Brittany E. Hayes, Sam Houston State University

• Phillip Kopp, California State University, Fullerton