Research Paper on:
Childhood Bullies

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have be precipitated by acts of bullying, this once accepted, if not detested, occurrence has been found to have some terrifying social consequences, not only for the bully themselves, but  for their victims. What follows, then, is geared to answer the question of why bullies bully, and what can be done to modify this behavior. The clinical definition of bullying  is a repeated and systematic harassment and attack on others. It can be perpetrated by a single individual or by a group. Experts diverge on many aspects of the bullying  phenomenon, but almost all agree that the following forms of bullying fall under this definition. Bullying may include any or all of the following, including physical violence, verbal abuse, threats  and intimidation, theft of money, possessions, exclusion or isolation from the peer group(Olwes, 1993). This was not a topic that gained much media attention in the past, but with the  school shootings in Columbine, Paducah and others, the bully factor has been scrutinized closely. What was found was that bullying is highly prevalent. This is not an American phenomenon, but  one that is suffered by numerous children internationally as well. At least fifteen percent of the students, internationally as well as within the United States, are bullies, with nine percent  being the victims(Patterson, 1989). Mostly the victims are those children that are younger, or perceived as weaker in some way. They are easy targets, in other words. The dynamics  between a bully and his victim are diverse enough to set up a prey and predatory response, one could state. What was found to be consistently true was that children  who tend to be bullies come from homes where there is poor supervision and there is some form of modeling for aggressive behavior. Often, the bully is a student who