Other Common Forms of Criminal Harassment:
Stalking:
- Repeatedly following from place to place the other person or anyone known to them.
- Repeatedly communicating with, directly or indirectly, the other person or anyone known to them.
- Besetting or watching the dwelling-house, or place where the other person, or anyone known to them.
- Engaging in threatening conduct directed at the other person or any member of their family.
Property Crime:
Since individuals’ property and possessions are often extensions of themselves. Victims of property crime often feel personally violated. They may experience a violation of their sense of privacy, security, and trust, along with a sense a shock and disbelief that this could have happened to them.
Victims may experience feelings of:
- Anger: at the offender for his/her actions Frustration: with the police and the court system if the offender is not apprehended or property is not returned
- Fear: that the home and property are not safe; that is they stay home the will encounter strangers in their home.
- Suspicion: of strangers in the neighbourhood or even of neighbours and other people they know.
- Guilt: that somehow they could have prevented this crime.
- Loss: they may grieve the loss of the property.
- Isolation: a sense that no one was there to help prevent this occurring.
- Financial Concerns: related to the repair and replacement of items that were stolen or destroyed; the cost of ‘making do’ in the meantime; how to pay for better security.
Other Resources:
- Human Rights
- Family Services Immigration
- http://lfsfamily.ca/immigrant_services/index.php
- Internet Safety
- www.rcmp–grc.gc.ca/is-si
- Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre
- 1-888-495-8501
- http://www.antifraudcentre.ca
- Hate Crimes
- www.albertahatecrimes.ca www.actalberta.org
- Cyberbullying
- www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/is-si