Stalking and harassment is a pattern of behaviour characterised by unwanted, repeated, fixated, and obsessive focus on the victim. A Stalking and Harassment offence occurs when a person engages in a pattern of behaviour directed at another individual by committing one or more specified acts (see below) on at least two separate occasions within a two-year period, knowing that their behaviour is likely to cause fear or distress to that person. Stalking can occur within family and intimate relationships, with strangers, or acquaintances.