Abstract: Although research demonstrates that college students are at great risk for stalking occurrences (Fisher, Cullen, and Turner 2002), little scholarship exists on how students define stalking. In the current study, a 2 (offender/target gender: male offender/female target, female offender/male target) x 4 (relationship: stranger, casual acquaintance, ex-intimate, hook-up) x 2 (respondent gender: female, male) factorial design survey was administered to 527 college students to determine whether these extralegal factors influence the ascription of a stalking label. Logistic regression results revealed that respondent gender and offender/target gender did not statistically influence …