Creating a pattern around a shape

Hi,
How can I take these groups of white dots and have them go around the entire object while also taking it's shape?
Thanks!

Thanks.
-Do you have to create the scatter brush, or is that a default?
-Also, how do you enable it so that scatter brush can be selected for the stroke (like you have an additional dropdown to the right of the stroke dropdown where you can see it says the word "Scatter."
If you don't mind my asking, how do you do the same effect with a regular white line stroke (again with some space from the edge)? I tried playing with adding an inner stroke from the appearance palette and then another fill on top but that didn't work.
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