Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying

by Sameer K. Hinduja, Justin W. Patchin

Overview

Technology keeps changing, and cyberbullying is as prominent as ever. It’s time to up your game.

As social media apps, gaming platforms, and other online environments have given present more opportunities to adolescents to cause harm to their peers, the proportion of youth who’ve experienced cyberbullying continues to rise. This bestselling guide from the co-directors of the Cyberbullying Research Center provides the tools you need today to keep your students safe in this increasingly connected world.

Now in its third edition, this essential resource draws on the cyberbullying experiences of thousands of students and incorporates new evidence-based strategies focused on school climate, empathy, resilience, digital citizenship, media literacy, counterspeech, and student-led initiatives. Other updates include:

• An overview of popular online environments you should know about
• Techniques for how best to work with parents, student groups, law enforcement, and social media platforms
• Deeper exploration of the emotional and psychological consequences of cyberbullying
• A nuanced focus on identity-based (e.g., gender, race, religion, sexual orientation) victimization
• Summaries of the latest legal rulings and what they mean for your school

Featuring solutions that are actionable, relevant, current, and data-driven, this guide will equip you to protect students from online harm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781071921531
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/22/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	277,376
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Sameer Hinduja is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University. He is recognized internationally for his groundbreaking work about cyberbullying and safe social media use among youth. His research seeks to illuminate how best to promote civility, deter harmful behavior, and proactively reduce victimization online.

Justin W. Patchin is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. For two decades he has been exploring the intersection of teens and technology, with particular focus on cyberbullying and sexting. He travels the world helping communities make online spaces safer and kinder.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Adolescent Aggression Goes Online
Chapter 2: The Nature and Forms of Cyberbullying
Chapter 3: What Do We Know About Cyberbullying
Chapter 4: Legal Issues: Protecting Your Students, Your School, and Yourself
Chapter 5: Preventing Cyberbullying
Chapter 6: Responding to Cyberbullying
References

Editorial Reviews

The third edition of Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard provides new, welcome insights on topics such as online gaming and metaverse environments, as well as how to promote empathy, resilience, and positive decision making when being targeted by peers with harassing or hateful comments, videos, and other forms of cruel content. If you want to make measurable progress in safeguarding your always-connected students, this is the book you need.

Boca Raton, Florida - Matthew Pursel

"The original text has become the seminal and authoritative text on the topic of cyber-bullying. I am confident that the second edition will continue to be an essential resource for school districts, administrators, educators, parents, and policymakers. "

Jude A. Huntz

"Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin seemlessly weave the latest research with riveting examples from the frontlines of cyberbullying. This is the definitive work on cyberbullying, rich with practical tools for teachers, school personnel, parents, and students to prevent and respond to cyberbullying. "

Suzanne W. Peck

"Drs. Hinduja and Patchin answer questions about cyberbullying that we all have. As an educator and a parent, I appreciate the candor and informative nature of their book. I feel my home and school benefit from the topics we can now discuss to make our battle better prepared. "

Frank Rudnesky

Hinduja and Patchin offer up-to-date and practical strategies for identifying and handling cyberbullying. In all my years in education, these have been the toughest incidents to handle as there are so many moving pieces. This book provides the resources we need in an easily accessible and organized manner.

Glendale, California - Carmen Labreque

"Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard is one of the most honest books I have read about the realities of childhood bullying and cyberbullying. I am recommending it to all my colleagues at my school for a book study. It should be required reading for anyone involved in educating children. "

Donna Eurich

"The authors of have written the manual on how to recognize, prevent, and respond to cyberbullying. I recommend that every educator and parent take the time to read and understand the important issue of cyberbullying. This book offers the answers educators and parents have been looking for when it comes to cyberbullying! "

Jolene Dockstader

"School leaders need information about cyberbullying and resources on how to protect the children in their care. This book provides timely research, best practices, and personal voices from students that will go a long way toward improving student safety. "

Gail Connelly

This is an excellent resource that clears up much of the confusion and sometimes hysteria generated in the media on cyberbullying. It provides prudent and do-able strategies from crafting policies, to investigating and responding to incidents. Most importantly, it provides the right mindset and philosophy for helping schools prevent the problem in the first place and for empowering all members of the school community to work together. Policymakers, administrators, teachers, parents, and students would all benefit from the knowledge contained in this book.”

Jim Dillon

"Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin get it! There are only a few researchers and others who are focusing on this growing problem, and these two are pioneers in the field. While there is a lot of press about Internet safety issues such as predators and pedophiles, cyberbullying—using 21st-century technologies as tools of peer abuse—tends to get lost in the shuffle. As professors of criminal justice, they get the fact that cyberbullying is not fundamentally a technology problem. Rather, it is a social and educational problem involving youth and their use of a variety of new technologies. The first responders should be parents and educators. From the table of contents and the preface, through each chapter, and throughout the wealth of immediately usable tools, this book is both an eye-opener and a hands-on text for classroom and support program educators and parents. It also puts things into practical perspective for professionals in law enforcement and the technology industry. It will take all of us to keep our young people safe in this new technological world. This is a much-needed resource. "

Mike Donlin

"Hinduja and Patchin are two of the most respected researchers on cyberbullying, and their in-depth research lays the foundation for this book. This book contains the best practices that principals can implement at their schools to prevent and respond to acts of cyberbullying. "

Gerald N. Tirozzi

As a middle school counselor, I always turn to Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin for expert advice on preventing and addressing cyberbullying. In this newest edition of their groundbreaking book, they share updated, research-informed, practical strategies that are easy to use on an individual, classroom, or schoolwide level to promote safe, healthy, and ethical student interactions online. Anyone who works with children or teens must have this indispensable guide!

Phyllis L. Fagell

"Cyberbullying is a significant concern for teens and tweens in the 21st century. This timely and informative book brings adults up to speed on how kids are using technology to harm their peers. "

Tina Meier

Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard is extremely relevant. It offers an abundance of research on cyberbullying and a thorough explanation of the legal ramifications involved in handling these incidents.

Los Angeles, California - Delia Racines

"An exemplary volume, providing information, tools, resources that can be used in every school. "

Teaching Tolerance magazine

"Cyberbullying can have the same debilitating effects on a young person as face-to-face bullying: depression, a drop in school grades, loss of self-esteem, suicide, and other violent acts. We simply must do all we can to stop this devastating problem. This book is an excellent resource that clearly presents the relevant issues and provides many practical strategies to help readers address cyberbullying. "

Alfonso E. Lenhardt

"An important contribution to the burgeoning literature on cyberbullying and a valuable tool for concerned adults that will enhance the safety and well-being of young people as they navigate their increasingly technological worlds. Backed by years of research and enhanced by the authors' perspectives from the worlds of criminology, juvenile justice, and computer science, this book offers educators, families, and youth service providers an array of useful information, ranging from the social and legal context to concrete strategies for responding to cyberbullying. "

Scott Hirschfeld

As a principal, I am constantly dealing with issues involving students and technology. Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard provides a playbook for addressing these problems and for preventing them from occurring in the first place.

Madison, Wisconsin - Mary Jo Vitale