Melton found that stalking was more likely to occur when the victims were "no longer in relationships with the abuser", the abusers had drug or alcohol problems, offenders were controlling in their behavior, and the victims had been stalked before by the abuser.
Stalking is characterized as an adamant course of direct including rehashed or proceeding with badgering made against the communicated wishes of another person, which makes that individual feel enthusiastic trouble including dread, provocation, terrorizing or worry.
The lawful meaning of stalking is characterized principally by state statutes. Notwithstanding, for all intents and purposes any undesirable contact between a stalker and their casualty which straightforwardly or in a roundabout way conveys a danger or spots the casualty in dread can for the most part be alluded to as stalking.