What Is Bullying

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves
a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential
to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may
have serious, lasting problems.

In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:

 An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical

strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or
harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different
situations, even if they involve the same people.
 Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential
to happen more than once.

Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking

someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.

 Types of Bullying
 Where and When Bullying Happens
 Frequency of Bullying
Types of Bullying
There are three types of bullying:

 Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things. Verbal bullying includes:

o Teasing
o Name-calling
o Inappropriate sexual comments
o Taunting
o Threatening to cause harm
 Social bullying, sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting
someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying includes:
o Leaving someone out on purpose
o Telling other children not to be friends with someone
 o Spreading rumors about someone
o Embarrassing someone in public
 Physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Physical
bullying includes:
o Hitting/kicking/pinching

o Spitting
o Tripping/pushing
o Taking or breaking someone’s things
o Making mean or rude hand gestures
Where and When Bullying Happens
Bullying can occur during or after school hours. While most reported bullying
happens in the school building, a significant percentage also happens in places like
on the playground or the bus. It can also happen travelling to or from school, in the
youth’s neighborhood, or on the Internet.

Frequency of Bullying
There are two sources of federally collected data on youth bullying:

 The 2015 School Crime Supplement - PDF (National Center for Education
Statistics and Bureau of Justice Statistics) indicates that, nationwide, about
21% of students ages 12-18 experienced bullying.
 The 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention) indicates that, nationwide, 19% of students in grades
9–12 report being bullied on school property in the 12 months preceding the
survey.

Domestic violence
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Domestic violence
 A purple ribbon to promote awareness of domestic violence

Classification and external resources

ICD-10 T74, X85-Y09

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Patient UK Domestic violence

MeSH D017579

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Violence against women

Issues

 Acid throwing
  Breast ironing
 Dating abuse
 Domestic violence
 outline
 management
 and pregnancy
 Eve teasing
 Female genital mutilation
 Gishiri cutting
 Infibulation
 Foot binding
 Force-feeding
 Forced abortion
 Forced marriage
 Forced pregnancy
 Marriage by abduction
 Raptio
 Witch trials

Killing

 Bride burning
 Dowry death
 Honor killing
 Femicide
 Infanticide
 Matricide
 Pregnant women
 Sati
 Sororicide
 Uxoricide

Sexual assault and rape

 Sexual assault
 Campus sexual assault
 Mass sexual assault
 Sexual violence
 Congo
 Papua New Guinea
  South Africa
 Child sexual initiation
 Rape
 and pregnancy
 laws
 Types of rape
 by deception
 corrective
 date
 gang
 genocidal
 in war
 marital
 prison
 statutory
 Forced prostitution
 Sexual slavery
 Sacred prostitution
 Devadasi
 Fetish slaves
 Human trafficking
 Violence against prostitutes
 Widow cleansing

Related topics

 Prosecution of gender-targeted crimes

 Women's shelter
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 6 February
 By country
 Gender violence

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 Violence against men

Issues

 Domestic violence
 outline
 against men
 management
 Forced genital mutilation
 Forced circumcision
 Involuntary castration
 Involuntary penis removal
 Shame-stroke
 Human trafficking
 Groom kidnapping

Killing

 Androcide
 Patricide
 Mariticide
 Fratricide
 Avunculicide

Sexual assault and rape

 Rape
 Prison rape
 Statutory
 Male rape
 Sexual violence

Related topics

 Reverse sexism
 Prosecution of gender-targeted crimes
 Men's rights movement
 Masculist views on violence
 Sentencing disparity

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Domestic violence (also named domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse by
one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation. It may be
termed intimate partner violence when committed by a spouse or partner in an intimate
relationship against the other spouse or partner, and can take place in heterosexual or same-
sex relationships, or between former spouses or partners. Domestic violence can also involve
violence against children, parents, or the elderly. It takes a number of forms,
including physical, verbal, emotional, economic, religious, reproductive, and sexual abuse, which
can range from subtle, coercive forms to marital rape and to violent physical abuse such as choking,
beating, female genital mutilation, and acid throwing that results in disfigurement or death. Domestic
murders include stoning, bride burning, honor killings, and dowry deaths.
Globally, the victims of domestic violence are overwhelmingly women, and women tend to
experience more severe forms of violence.[1][2] They are also likelier than men to use intimate partner
violence in self-defense.[3] In some countries, domestic violence is often seen as justified, particularly
in cases of actual or suspected infidelity on the part of the woman, and is legally permitted.
Research has established that there exists a direct and significant correlation between a country's
level of gender equality and rates of domestic violence, where countries with less gender equality
experience higher rates of domestic violence.[4] Domestic violence is among the most underreported
crimes worldwide for both men and women.[5][6] Due to social stigmas regarding male victimization,
men face an increased likelihood of being overlooked by healthcare providers.[7][8][9][10]
Domestic violence often occurs when the abuser believes that abuse is an entitlement, acceptable,
justified, or unlikely to be reported. It may produce an intergenerational cycle of abuse in children
and other family members, who may feel that such violence is acceptable or condoned. Many people
do not recognize themselves as abusers or victims because they may consider their experiences as
family conflicts that got out of control.[11] Awareness, perception, definition and documentation of
domestic violence differs widely from country to country. Domestic violence often happens in the
context of forced or child marriage.[12]
In abusive relationships, there may be a cycle of abuse during which tensions rise and an act of
violence is committed, followed by a period of reconciliation and calm. Victims of domestic violence
may be trapped in domestic violent situations through isolation, power and control, traumatic
bonding to the abuser,[13] cultural acceptance, lack of financial resources, fear, shame, or to protect
children. As a result of abuse, victims may experience physical disabilities, dysregulated aggression,
chronic health problems, mental illness, limited finances, and poor ability to create healthy
relationships. Victims may experience severe psychological disorders, such as post-traumatic stress
disorder. Children who live in a household with violence often show psychological problems from an
early age, such as avoidance, hypervigilance to threats, and dysregulated aggression which may
contribute to vicarious traumatization.[14]