Cyberbullying In America

The general public has known for a few years now that cyberbullying has affected our children all over the nation through social media. Thousands of young adults have retaliated from being cyberbullied in various ways, but does cyberbullying affect the school’s faculty and staff as well and how does cyberstalking affect our school officials? Also, does North Carolina have any laws against Cyberstalking? If so, what are the penalties if you are convicted of being a Cyber Stalker?

Moral panics is something that the society will always experience. From back in history to now, there are different cases of moral panics. Most of these panics affect and target individuals on a daily basis. Rainbow parties, teen sex bracelets, and even bullying has become a huge moral panic for the society now. Bullying have always existed, however, the method and seriousness of bullying has increased dramatically over time. Cyberbullying is one of the most troubling and disruptive crimes of our society now. The advancement of technology has definitely enforced a huge impact on cyberbullying. The internet and its easy access has made it exceptionally easy to target people, especially juveniles, throughout the day at any given time.

Due to recent studies about 4400 lives are lost each year due to cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has become more common in the U.S and has hurt and killed many of people over the years. Many people agree that cyberbullying and bullying in general should be stopped, and against the law.

Cyberbullying is the use of electronic devices with the intent of inflicting harm on another. Cyberbullying has steadily increased with new technology. Many international organizations and campaigns have emerged to defend the victims of this crime. An anti-bullying organization came about by youth in Canada to address the issues surrounding bullying in our society. This advocates for bullying awareness online, insisting that not enough government attention has been given to the issue of cyberbullying. It strives to influence the criminalization of this in Canada through public awareness. Its efforts cause question of the tolerance that cyberbullying has in our justice system. It seems ironic and illogical that internet users feel unsafe while participating in the online community. Why are laws not already in place prohibiting any feeling of nervousness? In order to facilitate the feeling of security among internet users, cyberbullying needs further attention from the government in the form of consequences associated with the offense. Legal punishment specific to cyberbullying needs institution as it constitutes the same as that of bullying outside of the virtual world, that it compromises the safety of its victims. By not implementing legal punishment towards cyber bullying, it voices the idea that the justice system condones the behavior and will encourage offenders.

    The sickening feeling builds when you are in the presence of a certain person. It could start with a snide remark, a glare, or even a tweet. The more it happens, the more you feel it, eventually dominating all your thoughts about school. With technology, sometimes going home can’t even get you away from bullying. Ashley Strickland a writer from CNN wrote, “research suggesting that anywhere between 18% and 31% of kids are affected by bullying. Cyberbullying affected between 7% and 15% of kids, and it's on the rise.” (Strickland) Bullying is a serious issue, even with thousands of different organizations such as the Kind Campaign and the Born This Way Foundation, bullying cannot be stopped. Bullying corrupts everyone not only

With the introduction of Internet, bullying has taken a new form. Most of the victims of traditional bullying and cyberbullying are teens and other youth; they are easy targets as they are the new to the internet and do not know much about what happens online (Campbell, 2005). Bullying is a risk factor for social and emotional change among children. Most bully victims range in age from 15 to 18 years, with the perpetrators turning towards technology to harass the intended victims (Gradinger & Strohmeier, 2009). Technology does not only include social networking sites on the Internet, it can also include the use of other forms of technology like cell phones, pagers, email, SMS and instant messaging (Seals & Young, 2004). Cyberbullies find their targets easily, 24/7, with technology. It becomes easy for them to find and harass their intended targets (Hinduja & Patchin, 2007; Juvonen & Gross, 2008; Dooley,

traditional bullying because it forms a proxy between the bully and their victim. It is much easier

Bullying is a continuous aggressive behavior of verbal threats or physical assault (Lee 1). Although bullying is mostly found in schools, it can also take place through the internet. This form of bullying is known as cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the act of harassing, threatening or embarrassing a person through social media (“Bullying” 1). Cyberbullying is the most common form of bullying we see today due to the accessibility of the internet and social media. Continuously bullying a person may lead to a decline in their mental health and academic performance, increase their risk of violence, or even cause an individual to have thoughts about suicide ("School Bullying Is Related to Mental Illness and Suicide" 2). Both bullying and cyberbullying

Cyber bullying has been a topic for scholarly inquiry, political debate, and policy reform since the commercialization of the Internet. Pre-internet bullying involved socially marginalized children and teenagers picking on their friends and other marginalized children at school. Traditional discipline included detentions, phone calls to their parents, and some type of discipline between the children involved. Today however, for bullies has dramatically changed and the risk-reward balance has been significantly tilted in favor of the bullies.

Many problems come across the United States everyday. One problem that stands almost as clear as the seas in Indonesia is bullying. Bullying gives schools all across America issues because of the violent, aggressive behavior students have to one another. Most bullies usually threaten the weak, or the ones that don't know how to defend themselves. They like having that power over someone, that's why it keeps happening.

Cyberbullying was made illegal December 10th, 2010. Most people believe that there shouldn’t be any consequences, for the reasoning of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the right to say any opinions without restraint. America is one of the few countries that allow freedom of speech. Some European countries speaking out against leadership will land you in jail or other severe the consequences. Freedom of speech should be enforced to a certain extent. If you are taking advantage of that freedom, then you should suffer serve consequences. Forty - nine , out of fifty states have laws in place about bullying, and 20 specifically mentioned cyberbullying in the legislature. According to iKeepSafe.org, criminal charges can be brought against

Cyber bullying is an issue that affects almost half of American teenagers. Adult specialists should endorse authoritarian rules to protect defenseless children from suffering the effects of the recent danger of cyber bullying. Although technology makes it tough to pinpoint the real criminal, the development of technology throughout the years has lately made cyber-bullying a more conspicuous issue.

Traditional bullying has been happening for a long time, but cyberbullying is fairly new, and is becoming more popular. Bullying is repetitive, negative interactions with the intention of inflicting physical or emotional pain to the victim, or in any way making the victim feel bad about themselves (Jan & Husains, 2015). Due to advances in technology, a new form of bullying called cyberbullying had begun to grow in popularity. Cyberbullying is similar to traditional bullying in that the intent of the bully is the same, but cyberbullying is committed using the internet, or cell phones (Baraldsnes, 2015). There has been a connection that has been found between bullying and cyber bullying; and that is that some of the bullies will continue to attack the

However, bullying has been around for many decades, and now that technology is becoming more advanced, it is faster to communicate with people. Having technology at their fingertips is becoming an international problem (Herrera,2015). In Texas, there was a survey done on cyber bullying in a middle school. Before the data was collected, the school district handed out a survey to see how much information the students know about cyber bullying. Then after collecting all the surveys, they administered a video about internet safety. Six weeks after watching the video they were given another survey about what they learned, there was two significant areas that were lit up. One area that was lit up was, how to positively report cyber bullying, and the other one was their perceptions of cyber bullying (Herrera,2015). Knowing the

As the effects of cyber bullying are becoming a growing problem, the criminalization of cyber bullying is needed to prevent its harmful repercussions to the United States and serve as a deterrent. Cyber bullying has become the 21st century version of bullying; it has extended beyond the classroom and onto a virtual world that seems to have no real-life effects. The world is now able to bully someone in the comfort of his or her own home, at any given point, with the use of technology. However, Cyber bullying still proves to have lasting impacts on the victim and it is now time for the offender to feel the ramifications of their actions.