History of Bullying
The issue of adolescent bullying in school setting is a broad subject encompassing many forms. Because of its origins are difficult to identify, such as where or who started it, but there are various reasons as to why it started. For as long as we know it “bullying” had been going forever. A prime example would be back to the revolutionary times when the king was bullying the people trying to live a free life in the Americas. Throughout history we've seen it, you may just call it acts of violence or injustices, but bullying is that there actions that are violent and are unjustifiable. There are steps or event that led to how the term bullying to come about. Bullying started to form a literary from. “Children have been singled out and harassed since the beginning of time. Written by Charles Dickens and published in 1838, Oliver Twist was one of the first novels in the English language to focus on the bullying and criminal mistreatment of a child protagonist.” said ("Bullying", 2012) throughout year there have been many incidents that shaped the meaning of bullying.
The earliest accounts of bullying have been recorded since 1862. In 1870 bullying was first research by Dr. Dan Olweus, his results of his studies were published in a Swedish book in 1973 and in the United States in 1978 under the title Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boy. throughout year more bullying incidents have been reported, In 2000, the technology took it role in bullying, during this year it lead to cyber bullying, and in 2003 it lead to the suicide of Ryan (his story in national context). as time went on there was action take to stop bullying. In 2006, National Bullying Prevention Month was declared in the United States. According to, Margaret, "Overview of state anti-bullying legislation and other related laws", (2012) “As of January 2012, 48 U.S. states had anti-bullying laws; sixteen states acknowledge that bullies often select their targets based on "creed or religion, disability, gender or sex, nationality or national origin, race, and sexual orientation." Each of the 16 employs a wide array of additional parameters, the paper notes, ranging from age and weight to socioeconomic status. Of the 38 states that have laws encompassing electronic or "cyberbullying" activity, 32 put such offenses under the broader category of bullying and six states define this type of offense separately.” Throughout lifetime bullying has been shaped and we are taking big actions but yet it has made little change we are yet to still find more solutions to stop and end bullying.
The earliest accounts of bullying have been recorded since 1862. In 1870 bullying was first research by Dr. Dan Olweus, his results of his studies were published in a Swedish book in 1973 and in the United States in 1978 under the title Aggression in the Schools: Bullies and Whipping Boy. throughout year more bullying incidents have been reported, In 2000, the technology took it role in bullying, during this year it lead to cyber bullying, and in 2003 it lead to the suicide of Ryan (his story in national context). as time went on there was action take to stop bullying. In 2006, National Bullying Prevention Month was declared in the United States. According to, Margaret, "Overview of state anti-bullying legislation and other related laws", (2012) “As of January 2012, 48 U.S. states had anti-bullying laws; sixteen states acknowledge that bullies often select their targets based on "creed or religion, disability, gender or sex, nationality or national origin, race, and sexual orientation." Each of the 16 employs a wide array of additional parameters, the paper notes, ranging from age and weight to socioeconomic status. Of the 38 states that have laws encompassing electronic or "cyberbullying" activity, 32 put such offenses under the broader category of bullying and six states define this type of offense separately.” Throughout lifetime bullying has been shaped and we are taking big actions but yet it has made little change we are yet to still find more solutions to stop and end bullying.