A legal or documented case · 1990 · Legislation
The stalker statute
Anti-stalking legislation passed in several jurisdictions, defining unwanted repeated contact as a criminal offence.
The first point at which the law acknowledged a parasocial bond can be dangerous to the person at the other end. The offence is about contact, not feeling, which is the correct boundary and the one most online argument resists.
Consideration. The part where somebody stops and thinks. The research, the diagnosis, the ethics, the lawsuits, the regulators. Roughly fifty years of arguing with itself about whether this is a relationship.
Where it sits
1950 1950-1999 · 1990 1999
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- retrievable'Stalking' became a criminal category rather late and for a specific reason: the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer, and the term entered US statutes in the early 1990s, with the UK following in the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. The law arrived after the homicideStalking (Wikipedia). ↗
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