The Queensland government says its laws are adequate to protect children and the teachers union says schools have enough powers to deal with bullies.
But parents of bullied students are still coming forward with more horror stories.
Education Minister Geoff Wilson called for “swift action” on the issue of bullying, as the Queensland Schools Alliance Against Violence [...]
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Schools are typically on guard against students who bully by inflicting repeated violence on other students. But technology has given rise to a relatively new form of bullying which inflicts emotional harm in a stealth manner, working through Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, cell phones and instant messaging.
And according to a new national study by [...]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals.
Although Google, Facebook and their rivals have enjoyed a relatively “safe harbor” from prosecution over user-generated content in the [...]
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(NOTE: This links to an abstract of a study published in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. The study itself is not yet available for free. – Mike)
Agnew’s general strain theory (GST) has received significant empirical attention, but important issues remain unresolved. This study addresses three such issues. First, the authors examine the effects of [...]
It’S been seven years, but the way Alannah McGregor sounds when she talks about two of her three children, it could have happened yesterday. Grief sounds like this; tight-chested but calm, with an unbearable sadness seeping through the words.
They were born four years apart, but Stuart, 20, and Angela McGregor, 16, were close. She was [...]
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