Sameer Hinduja - Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying

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, Executive Director, National Association of Elementary School Principals

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, Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals

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, President and CEO, National Crime Prevention Council

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, Director of Curriculum, Anti-Defamation League

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, Cyberbullying Activist, Founder, The Megan Meier Foundation

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, cyberbullyingusing 21st century technologies as tools of peer abusetends 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, Senior Program Consultant, Seattle Public Schools, WA

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

Teaching Tolerance magazine, Fall 2010

Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hinduja, Sameer

Bullying beyond the schoolyard : preventing and responding to cyberbullying / Sameer Hinduja, Justin W. Patchin. Second edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4833-4993-0 (pbk.)

1. Cyberbullying. 2. Bullying. 3. Computer crimes. 4. Internet and teenagers. I. Patchin, Justin W. II. Title.