Stalking Virginia Defense Lawyer Reporting Stats

Stalking in Virginia Sub Title § 18.2-60.3. Stalking; penalty. A. Any person, except a law-enforcement officer, as defined in § 9.1-101, and acting in the performance of his official duties, and a registered private investigator, as defined in § 9.1-138, who is regulated in accordance with § 9.1-139 and acting in the course of his legitimate business, who on more than one occasion engages in conduct directed at another person with the intent to place, or when he knows or reasonably should know that the conduct places that other person in reasonable fear of death, criminal sexual assault, or bodily injury to that other person or to that other person's family or household member is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. B. Any person who is convicted of a second offense of subsection A occurring within five years of a prior conviction of such an offense when the person was also convicted within the five-year period prior to the instant offense of a violation of (i) § 18.2-51, 18.2-51.2, 18.2-51.6, 18.2-52, or 18.2-57 and the victim of that crime was the same person who is the victim of the stalking activity in the instant conviction, (ii) $ 18.2-57.2, or (iii) a protective order, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. C. Any person convicted of a third or subsequent conviction of subsection A occurring within five years of a conviction for an offense under this section or for a similar offense under the law of any other jurisdiction is guilty of a Class 6 felony. Victim Knows The Offender 30 % Of victims are stalked 3 out of 4 victims know their offender by a current or former intimate partner 8% of 18 - 24 Victims monitored by videos, digital year old individuals experience the highest rate of stalking 10% of cameras, or listening devices Victims monitored by GPS Facts Majority of staíking In 2010, 943 arrests were made for stalking in Virginia. 204 convictions cases resulted in non- convictions. 204 73% This infographic presented by SRIS Law Group www.srislawyer.com Source: e.va.us/Programs%20and%20Resources/Domestic%20Violence/DV_20´