Acknowledgements
Credits
Preface
Part 1: What is bullying?
- Our starting point: How do we define bullying?
- The unseen bullying of social exclusion
- The case for legislation
- Change of schools can make the new kids vulnerable
- Private schools can help, but have their issues too
- Teachers wish for more training, attention on the issue
- Timeline
- Bullying by boys tends to be more physical and visible
- Girls’ bullying can be almost secret
- Aggressors need help, just like their targets
Part 2: Cyberbullying
- Study shows teens’ online world can have a mean streak
- Underage kids join Facebook, sometimes with parental help
- Internet bullying has become a social norm
- Researcher draws line between bullying and online drama
- Griefers stalk players in video games
- A second look at “Bully”: The video game
- America is not alone in dealing with the issue
Part 3: Hazing
- The crime of hazing
- Band hazing is facing tighter scrutiny and new laws
- Hazing liaison brings the issues out into the open
- At many levels, sports teams are trying to cut the hazing
- Bully coaches in sports affect young athletes
- Workplace bullying, long studied in Europe, gets noticed in U.S.
- New pressure on military hazing: Rite or wrong?
Part 4: Social Aggression
- Bullying-suicide connection has many factors
- Relaxed taboo means more suicide news
- School rampages defy easy explanation
- Bullies in the cinema
- Bullies and targets are sometimes the same person
Part 5: Solutions
- Hospital’s new center takes a medical approach
- Celebrities use their stages to denounce bullying
- Authors anticipated rising interest in subject
- The children’s television channel Cartoon Network turned up its stand against bullying in 2011 and early 2012.
- Questionnaires get at what happens and how often
- Suicides spurred global anti-bullying strategy
- The power of 100
- Bully policy and programs
- “It Gets Better” campaign promises brighter futures
