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The Guidelines for Stalking Assessment and Management (SAM) are a set of structured professional judgment guidelines for assessment and management of the risk of stalking—a pattern of targeted, repeated, and unwanted intrusive acts—which can cause serious physical or mental harm to victims. The diversity and the number of stalking cases make it difficult for police
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