如影隨形的暴力：親密伴侶跟蹤行為

Like the Shadow Following: Battered Women's Experience on Intimate Partner Stalking

本研究探討受暴婦女遭親密伴侶跟蹤的經驗，以及親密伴侶跟蹤對婦女所造成的傷害，在安全、身心狀況、以及生活等方面的影響為何？採用質性研究方法，對17位曾遭受親密伴侶跟蹤的婦女進行深度訪談。研究結果發現親密伴侶跟蹤方法相當多元，依據跟蹤者所使用的方法，本研究將親密伴侶跟蹤行為歸納為：遠端操控──利用設備或通訊裝置監控，尋覓迫近──跟追與近距離監控，侵門踏戶－－搜索破壞、發出警告，以及陰魂不散──透過各種方法持續糾纏等4類。而當施暴者展開跟蹤後，破壞力更大，對婦女的安全、身體健康、心理健康、工作、社會關係及生活上皆帶來嚴重的影響。最後研究者提出了親密伴侶跟蹤行為認定的考慮因素、脅迫控制理論模式的解釋以及暴力傷害等多項的討論，並對本土未來實務防治策略與學術研究方向提出建議。

The purpose of this study is to analyze intimate partner stalking behavior, the victim's experience and the impacts of intimate partner stalking on women. Qualitative methods were used in this study. A group study with social workers and a counselor was conducted first to highlight the scope and behaviors of intimate partner stalking. Then 17 intimate partner stalking victims were interviewed by researchers. Results indicated that there were varieties of intimate partner stalking behaviors. This study categorized four types of intimate partner stalking: using technicians or cyberstalking, approaching stalking, signal stalking, and continuing harassment. When the perpetrators adopted stalking toward their female partners, the previous violence and stalking behaviors were produced intensive effects on victims, making more serious harms. In addition, the intimate partner stalking victims received more dangerous offenses from their partners, serious threats on their physical and psychological health, and more critical destructions on their works, lives, and social relationships. At the end, this study proposed some issues of intimate partner stalking, including: the identification of such behaviors, the coercive control model explaining the intimate partner stalking, the procedure stalking, and the intensive violence and control by offenders via the stalking-violence circle. Moreover, some suggestions for future studies and practice, and policies were provided.