Middle-aged also obsessed? 4 out of 10 stalking suspects are in their 40s and 50s

No Significant Difference Compared to 20s and 30s
Men Account for an Overwhelming 81% by Gender

More than 40% of stalking suspects arrested by the police last year were middle-aged. This was somewhat different from the common perception that stalking crimes mostly occur among younger people.

According to data submitted by the National Police Agency to Jeong Woo-taek, a member of the National Assembly's Public Administration and Security Committee from the People Power Party, a total of 10,037 stalking suspects were apprehended last year.

By gender, males accounted for an overwhelming 81.3% of the suspects. By age group, those in their 20s were the largest at 21.5%, followed by those in their 40s at 21.2%, 30s at 20.9%, and 50s at 19.6%. Suspects aged 60 and above made up 12.4%, while minors under 19 accounted for 1.6%.

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Among them, those in their 40s and 50s, considered middle-aged, accounted for 40.8% of the total, which was not significantly different from the 42.4% of those in their 20s and 30s. Generally, it is easy to assume that stalking crimes occur more frequently among young people who are relatively more active in dating, but a comparable number of suspects were also arrested among the middle-aged group.

Meanwhile, the number of stalking crime victims was similarly recorded at 10,547, with women accounting for 81.2% of them. By age group, victims in their 20s were the most common at 25.8%, followed by those in their 40s at 21.9%, 30s at 20.6%, 50s at 15.8%, and 60 and above at 8.1%, showing a distribution similar to that of the suspects.

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