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All students, regardless of race, weight, gender, ethnicity, etc., can be targeted as victims of bullying. [2] Two research articles have examined bullying at the post-secondary level in great detail. These articles both appeared in the journal Adolescence in 2004 and 2006. [3]
All fifty states in the United States have passed school anti-bullying legislation, the first being Georgia in 1999. [6] Montana became the most recent, and last, state to adopt anti-bullying legislation in April 2015. A watchdog organization called Bully Police USA advocates for and reports on anti-bullying legislation. [7]
Anti-bullying laws in the U.S. have also been enacted in 23 of its 50 states, making bullying in schools illegal. [140] A 2019 study by McCallion & Feder found that school-based anti-bullying programs may lower the incidence of bullying by 25%. [141] Bullying prevention programs allow schools to help decrease cyberbullying within the realm of ...
The 2021 USA Today article "Bullying in Private Schools" [72] states that it is hard to say whether private or public schools have worse bullying issues in the United States. A bullying expert Dewey Cornell states in the article, "“In practice, bullying occurs everywhere, and it is a question of whether school authorities recognize the ...
The study of peer victimization draws from two major strands of research as identified by Seely, Tombari, Bennett & Dunkle (2009) [2] called the "bullying strand" and the "peer relationship strand." The victimization aspect of the "bullying strand" focuses on what leads victims to disengage from school and suffer from damaging negative outcomes ...
Students at Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township, New Jersey are mourning the loss of Adriana Kuch, a high school student who died by suicide shortly after a video of her being ...
Sexual bullying involves subjecting an individual to ridicule through sexual jokes, comments, or gestures, causing embarrassment or discomfort. Cyber-bullying refers to bullying that takes place through electronic means. This can involve receiving mean-spirited instant messages, posts, emails, or text messages, or the creation of websites ...
In terms of gender, the Workplace Bullying Institute (2007) [26] states that women appear to be at greater risk of becoming a bullying target, as 57% of those who reported being targeted for abuse were women. Men are more likely to participate in aggressive bullying behaviour (60%), however when the bully is a woman her target is more likely to ...