Stalking Awareness Resolution Approved by Senate - Women's Congressional Policy Institute

On November 3, the Senate approved, by unanimous consent, a resolution (S. Con. Res. 58) to raise awareness and encourage the prevention of stalking in the United States. The resolution also would designate January 2004, as “National Stalking Month.”

Sponsored by Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH), the resolution contains a number of findings, including:

an estimated 1,006,970 women and 370,990 men are stalked annually in the United States and, in the majority of cases, the person is stalked by someone who is not a stranger; and
81 percent of women who are stalked by an intimate partner also are physically assaulted by that partner, and 76 percent of women who are killed by an intimate partner also were stalked by that intimate partner.