Bullying
Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others.
The behavior can be
habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power.
It can include verbal harassment
or threat, physical assault or coercion and may be...
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Bullying
Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others.
The behavior can be
habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power.
It can include verbal harassment
or threat, physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims,
perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability.
If bullying is done by a group,
it is called mobbing.
The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target".
Bullying can be defined in many different ways.
The UK currently has no legal definition of
bullying, while some U.
S.
states have laws against it.
Bullying consists of three basic types of
abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical.
It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as
intimidation.
Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully
may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his
or her bullying a
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