Protection from Harassment Act 1997

Persistent threatening behaviour by one person against another. The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 creates two offences relating to stalking. If the harasser's behaviour makes the victim fear for his or her safety, the maximum penalty is two years' imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. When the behaviour does not lead to a fear of violence but does cause distress, the maximum penalty is six months in prison and/or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum. The behaviour must have taken place on more than one occasion and the prosecution must show that a reasonable person would realize that the behaviour would have the effect of causing the victim to fear violence or feel harassed (Kelly v DPP ( 2002 ) 166 JP 621). Both offences are immediately arrestable without a warrant, and the police have power to search the harasser's property. The courts may make a restraining order immediately after convicting a person of either of the two offences. In Scotland the common law has always provided protection against stalking through the offence of breach of the peace.

Stalking first attracted widespread public concern when a young actress named Rebecca Shaeffer, who was living in California, was shot to death by an obsessed fan who had stalked her for two years.

In general, stalking victims are women from all walks of life. Some are trying to end a relationship with a man, often one who has been abusive. The persons involved may be married or divorced or may have been sexual partners. In other cases the stalker and the victim may know one another casually or be associated in an informal or formal way. For example, they may have had one or two dates or talked briefly but were not sexual partners, or they may be coworkers or former coworkers. In a small number of situations, the stalker and the victim do not know one another. Cases involving celebrities and other public figures usually fall into this category.
At the federal level, a number of statutes have been enacted to protect victims of stalkers. These include the Full Faith and Protection provisions of the VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT (18 U.S.C.A. § 2265–2266 2000), which mandate nationwide enforcement of orders of protection, including harassment and stalking, and the Interstate Stalking Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 2261A 1996), which makes it a criminal offense to travel across state lines to stalk another person. The act also makes it a crime to stalk a person across state lines using mail, E-MAIL, or the INTERNET. Such crimes are punishable from five years to life in prison. Please remit to ::: Protection from Harassment Act 1997

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by Warning # 5,PI here Right Now April 22, 2010

this thot on my body she tryna harass me boy in the back you cannot pass me run to the back and i feel like a athlete, she said that ice said im movin too flashy

@JUSTJOOO

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this thot on my body she tryna harass me boy in the back you cannot pass me run to the back and i feel like a athlete, she said that ice said im movin too flashy

by gawkgawk147 May 20, 2023

Textual Harassment

When a girl or guy, usually one you don't want to be associated with, smothers you with text messages to the point of calling the cops on them.

My crazy ex girlfriend who still wants something from me likes to initiate in textual harassment.

by Big Shermy August 23, 2010

Textual Bombardment / Harassment.

The act when one person sends another person a series of small, meaningless (by themselves and not as a whole), pointless, annoying, gear grinding redundant messages with the purpose of conveying a message.

Person1: Hi
Person1: How
Person1: Are
Person1: You
Person2: Dude can you quit? This is Textual Bombardment / Harassment.

Pesron1: Today?
Person1: Okay.

by victicom August 4, 2015

harassing my cat

Another term for female masturbation

Im busy harassing my cat.

by kentuckygurl_09 October 3, 2016

harassment by unwelcome advertisement

The legal name for the "moderate misdemeanor"-level crime of causing someone to be deluged with junk mail. Often performed by a disgruntled acquaintance of said individual as a way of getting even with the person for a perceived wrongdoing, and usually accomplished by "anonymously" contacting multitudes of businesses/organizations by phone/fax/email and/or responding to paper/internet junk-mail ads that you yourself receive by filling out the advertisers' response-forms in your victim's name, so that he will soon begin receiving tons of useless crap in his mailbox and/or e-mail account, receiving innumerable telemarketing/sales-calls, getting loads of junk-faxes (which of course will create the added headache/expense of his having to buy more paper and ink for his machine from its dutifully printing out all those useless ads!), having salespeople knocking at his door at all hours, etc.

Another sometimes-effective/successful use for harassment by unwelcome advertisement is to pressure the "targeted" person to do something you want (think, the hilariously-infamous "Taliban Hotline" animated cartoon); extra points if you also choose the types of advertisers --- and your method of sending the ad-responses --- strategically, so as to inflict maximum discomfort/humiliation on your victim, such as requesting info/offers from controversial and/or "spicy" organizations like the KKK or "adult" product/literature producers, and sending some of the requests via post card instead of discretely-concealing envelopes, so that every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the postal system is made shockingly aware that this person is apparently interested in these questionable/controversial services.

by QuacksO August 19, 2018

Goeroegial Harassment

Uncomfortable weird shut, that makes you uncomfortable.

He's rubbing my back while reading:goeroegial harassment

by Clxclxclx February 27, 2019