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Brodie's Law, formally the Crimes Amendment (Bullying) Act 2011, was an amendment to the Victorian Crimes Act 1958 which makes serious bullying an offence punishable by a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment. The law is named after Brodie Panlock, a 19-year-old who took her own life after being bullied at work.
The Law defines bullying as any repeated aggression or harassment that occurs in or outside the educational institution, by one student or a group towards another, causing mistreatment, humiliation, or fear. Bullying may be perpetrated in person or through any means, including cyber-bullying.
In the United Kingdom, there is no legal definition of the term "bullying", [15] while some states in the United States currently have laws specifically against it. [16] Bullying is divided into four basic types of abuse: psychological (sometimes referred to as "emotional" or "relational"), verbal, physical, and cyber (or "electronic"), though ...
An anti-bullying bill named after an Indiana middle schooler who died by suicide has been signed into law by the governor.
This school year, Illinois will become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools. Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical ...
In the majority of states, physical punishment by a parent remains (controversially) legal under statutes making exceptions to the state's law on the crimes of assault, criminal battery, domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual abuse or child abuse. These exceptions usually establish that no crime has been committed when certain actions are ...
Private schools are exempt from some parts of Iowa's sweeping new education law governing LGBTQ instruction and "age appropriate" books.
Cyber-bullying, or Internet bullying, ... [48] As noted, any sexual abuse of children, whether online or in person, is subject to strict punishment by law.