Characteristics+of+Victims


 * Characteristics of Victims﻿﻿ **

Candace Mulcahy
[|Bullies Choose Their Victims Wisely] This article shows that bullies do not just strike out blindly at other children, they target the least liked individuals to receive the least backlash possible. This is proven by many surveys in over 20 different schools that have information on who is bullied and why they are bullied. The consequences of this is that with the least like students being bullied there are less people standing up for the victims being bullied. A conclusion made from this study states that to eradicate the bully problem there needs to be an intensive program to completely annihilate the problem.

Violence, Children, Ages bullied

"Bullies Choose Their Victims Wisely." MSNBC. Livescience.com, 25 Mar. 2010. Web. 9 Feb. 2011.

Hunter Bosy Alabama elementary principals' perceptions of bullying You almost always hear about how bullying occurs and why, but do you ever wonder what it feels like for the victim? Whether it’s in elementary, middle or high school, bullying occurs. Bullying has begun to rise throughout the nation with over 40 % of some kind of bullying per week. The evidence in this journal states that bullies and victims do not gain one thing which can help the situation. Surveys say that low self esteem and early depression occur when being a victim, yet bullies lose friends, and also don’t have very good self esteem either. But over all bullying is starting to become a large problem in the united states today and is a problem that should be solved.

Students, Victims, Survey

Flint, Samual W. Alabama Elementary Principals' Perceptions of Bullying (2008). Gale Studen Resourse Center. Web. 8 Feb. 2011

Mason Gentner Dealing with Bullying

Tom McIntyre and Alexis Franks are trying to reach out to parents and victims of bullies and tell them why bullies pick on certain victims and what they can do to not show a bully that they are a possible victim. The authors try to tell everyone that if you do not confront a bully, they are more likely to go after you again. The focus of the authors’ attention is on the characteristics of victims of bullies. The evidence that shows this was a national survey in the U.S. and real life stories of bullying. The consequences of bullying can vary from depression to suicide. The authors present a solution for this that if more bystanders stepped in and tried to confront and stop bullies, it could stop the process. They conclude that if victims are not afraid and confront the bully and other bystanders also do the same, if could reduce the rate of bullying.

Victims of Bullying, Reasons to Bully, Ways to Avoid Being Bullied

McIntyre, Tom, and Alexis Franks. "Dealing with Bullying." Dealing with Bullying. Behavioradvisor. Web. 9 Feb. 2011.

[|**Finding New Life after Colum****bine: A year after the massacre, some parents are trying to find peace by joining in a war against school violence**]
 * Daniel Jardine **

The author writes this piece because he wants to instruct how bad bullying can be and how the outcome can affect other peoples’ lives. The focus of this article is to try to teach schools that they can change themselves within the school so that shootings never happen. The parents of the victims are publically speaking in different groups like high schools churches and gun control. The consequences of the shooting made the schools have to change and try to fix the problems happening in the public schools. The parents are heartbroken but they are dealing with the problem by speaking publically and making meetings with other groups. Victims, shootings, consequences

Murr, Andrew. "Finding New Life After Columbine." Finding New Life After Columbine (2000): A. Web. 3 Feb. 2011.

**Amber Ruther**
<span style="color: #8e22dd; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|//Rami Benbenishty and Ron Avi Astor, School Violence in Context: Culture, Neighborhood, Family, School and Gender//]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This article is an overview of a book that describes bullying at a higher level for adults and teens. It gives attention to specific bullying incidents and their factors and contextual variables. It says that a number of characteristics affect the severity and form of the bullying. These include: student characteristics (age, gender, and physical description), family characteristics (poverty and parenting practices), school factors, and community factors (socio-cultural factors). Common correlates are found in both California and Israel, where the data was taken from. For example, there is little variation in how age, gender, and cultural factors affect the forms and severity of bullying in both California and Israel. School factors were found to have the most impact on bullying.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Tags: factors of bullying, forms of bullying, variation in bullying

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Stone, Susan. "Rami Benbenishty and Ron Avi Astor, School Violence in Context: Culture, Neighborhood, Family, School and Gender." Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare 33.2 (2006). Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 4 Feb. 2011.

Greg Rosenthal <span style="color: #8e22dd; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[|Victims of Bullying face Lingering health issues]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The authors main purpose of writing this article is notify parents, teachers, and other children on how much bullying can affect someone. The focus of this piece was on people who are bullied and how it affects the people they are and will be someday. The author provides real children’s experiences where the children’s lives are changed dramatically because they were bullied and no one knew about it. The consequences of bullying are that many innocent kids are bullied everyday for no other reason then to make the other party feel better about themselves and to get a good laugh, and these kids will struggle for the rest of high school and possibly life and its unfair. The author gives a solution by saying adults need to get more involved by looking into arguments and what not, because they have been much to clueless and careless. The conclusion draws that bullies effect people in bad ways and often can hurt someone for a long time. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Tags: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Real examples, positives of bullying, mental health

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Carrol, Linda. "Victims of Bullying Face Lingering Health Issues." Kids and Parenting on MSNBC.com. MSNBC.com, 2011. Web. 14 Feb. 2011.

Amber Ruther

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Arthur Barber <span style="color: #8e22dd; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Pie chart of bullying statistics

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 * Liz Belyea**
 * [|Columbine Shooter's Journals]**
 * This website has the journals of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the two gunmen at Columbine High School. The link is blocked by the school but it can be acessed at home.**

"Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's Writings." //Acolumbinesite.com//. Web. 17 Feb. 2011.

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 * Ricky Guay**

Greg Rosenthal [|The Psychology Behind School Shootings: Protests Against and Reflections of a System That Fails Us]

corrpution in the schools, violence, effects of bullying

Birch, Alex. "The Psychology Behind School Shootings: Protests Against and Reflections of a System That Fails Us." //Corrupt Conservation and Conservatism//. Corrupt.org, 25 Sept. 2008. Web. 18 Feb. 201

Greg Rosenthal [|School Shootings: Why They Kill & How to Stop Them]

psychology of shooters, school shootings, violence

Pawlik-Kienlin, Laurie. "School Shootings: Why They Kill & How to Stop Them." //Suite101.com Insightful Writers. Informed Readers.// Suite101.com, 24 Apr. 2007. Web. 18 Feb. 2011.