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- Title
STALKERS WALK: A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL STALKING REFORM.
- Authors
Hare, Jordan
- Abstract
Stalking is a worldwide epidemic, and one of the fastest growing crimes in many countries around the world. Howeuer, current legista- Non in states around the worid does not rejled this rise in stalking as a crime, and thus it frequently goes unprosecuted, with victims left to fend for themselues. The United Nations has the tools to add/ress this problem. The Convention on the Elimination Of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) allows the Committee on Elimination #Discrimination against Women to supplement CEDA W with geneml recommendations to signatory states. As CEDAW is one of the most widely ratified treaties in the world, the Committee has a lot of force in pushing specific recommendations into legislative action through these means. Therefore, the Committee should adopt a general recommendation proposing the JouT essential elements of an ejfectiue anti-stalking statute: a police warning system, an implied threat requirement, a course of conduet requirement, and a "knew or should have known" mental state requirement.
- Subjects
STALKING laws; CONVENTION on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1980); UNITED Nations; PREVENTION of stalking; INTERNATIONAL law
- Publication
George Washington International Law Review, 2020, Vol 52, Issue 2, p317
- ISSN
1534-9977
- Publication type
Article