Bullying: A Major Social Problem in the United States

Bullying is a major problem facing the United States today. The American Psychological Association reports that about 40% to 80% of children are involved to some extent in school bullying. The severity of the problem (APA, 2014) can be observed with statistics. In the United States, a total of 4,080,879 children between the ages of 5 and 18 were victims of bullying.

In the early 21st century, school bullying became a social problem of trends in American academics, news, and public discourse. Bullying is related to other social problems such as shooting at large schools and suicide by young people. In this chapter, we will explain the progress of school bullying as scholarly social problem and news media. We have decided how this discourse expands the conceptualization and the field of school bullying and raises public hysteria. We also discussed the contradictory interpretation of bullying that could lead to confusion in personal, institutional and socio-cultural aspects. Finally, we believe that efforts to reduce bullying at school have criminalized adolescent behavior. We proposed a more effective bullying research and prevention method.

Bullying is a major problem facing the United States today. The American Psychological Association reports that about 40% to 80% of children are involved to some extent in school bullying. The severity of the problem (APA, 2014) can be observed with statistics. - As a member of the Faculty of Education, I feel that education is one of the basic needs of our youth. I support the recent attention of the media to people who experienced bullying, whether physical or emotional. When I first started school, the only place I could access my computer was a school or a local library.

School bullying is a common problem in primary schools, middle schools and high schools in the United States and around the world. As an international phenomenon, school bullying occurs at similar frequencies in different cultures, countries, and educational settings (Carney & Merrell, 2001). Today, school bullying is considered one of the main threats to school safety, even though it is considered to be normal once it is not part of growth harm (Junoven, 2005; Scarpaci, 2006 ; Whitted & Dupper, 2005). Several deadly school shooting, initiated by school bullying victims since the late 1990s, attracts a wide range of media attention. As a result, the general perception of programs of various regions, countries and countries designed to prevent the adverse effects of school bullying and problems, or at least to solve the problem, has increased. In recent years psychologists, sociologists, and school administrators have published a number of studies on school bullying.