NCJ Number
196743
Editor(s)
Robert A. Geffner Ph.D.,
Marti Loring Ph.D.,
Corinna Young M.S.
Date Published
2001
Length
214 pages
Annotation
This book presents a series of papers focusing on bullying behavior and other violent crimes committed by adolescents in schools.
Abstract
This book is composed of a series of papers addressing the dynamics of bullying behavior, theories concerning bullying, and bullying intervention and prevention measures. Focusing on both bullying behavior and other violent crimes committed by adolescents in schools, this work begins with a brief introduction to bullying research. Starting with a presentation of theoretical perspectives on bullying, the first chapter of this book addresses bullying in schools, focusing on the social, physical, institutional, and community contexts and the individual characteristics of youths who are bullied and victimized. A discussion of the tripartite belief models of bully and victim behavior, focusing on normative, self-efficacy, and outcome-expectancy beliefs, comprises the next chapter. Interviews with middle school students concerning victimization and bullying and a discussion of the roles of dominance and bullying in the development of heterosexual relationships are the focus of the next two chapters, concluding the theoretical perspectives on bullying. A presentation of papers addressing clinical research on the dynamics of bullying behavior encompasses the next section of this book. Studies on the interrelationships of bully and victim behavioral indices, the relationship between depression, anxiety, and bully/victim status, and peer influences and psychosocial correlates of bullying and victimization are discussed in a series of three chapters. The last section of this book focuses on bullying interventions and preventions, highlighting middle school bullying as a context for the development of passive observers of victimization, in the first chapter of this section. Preventing bullying and sexual harassment in elementary schools and developing self-efficacy in a new training model for the prevention of bullying in schools is the focus of the last two chapters of this book. Tables, references, and index