Behavior of repeated aggressive behavior in order to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally, mostly behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person.
What is bullying?
100
Includes any physical contact that would hurt or injure a person like hitting, kicking, punching, etc.
In elementary and middle school this is 30.5% of the bullying.
What is Physical Bullying?
100
Sending messages, pictures, or information using electronic media, computers, email, instant messages, cell phones, text messaging and voicemail that threatens or frightens someone.
What is Cyber Bullying?
100
Threatening someone else and frightening that person enough to make him or her do whatever the Bully wants.
What is Intimidation Bullying?
100
Felony 1st Degree - Maximum More than 10 years
Felony 2nd Degree - Maximum 10 years
Felony 3rd Degree - Maximum 7 years
What Pensylvania Crimes are associated with Bullyling?
200
A person communicates, either directly or indirectly, a threat to: (1) commit any crime of violence with intent to terrorize another. The offense of which contstitutes a misdemeanor of the first degree.
What is a Terroristic Threat?
200
An act of malicious intention toward the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity of another.
What is Ethnic Intimidation?
300
Anyone and everyone.
Who can be bullied?
Who can be a Bully?
300
Taking something that belongs to someone else and destroying it.
What is Physical Bullying?
300
An act which the actor knows is likely to be observed by others who would be affronted or alarmed.
What is Open Lewdness?
300
When a person strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects the other person to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same; follows the other person in or about a public place or places; engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts which serve no legitimate purpose.
What is harrassment?
300
Misdemeanor of the 1st Degree - Maximum 5 years
Misdemeanor of the 2nd Degree - Maximum 2 years
Misdemeanor of the 3rd Degree - Maximum 1 years
What is the Grading of Misdemeanors?
400
Name calling, making offensive remarks, or joking about a person's religion, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or the way they look.
46.5% of all bullying in schools is this type of bullying.
What is Verbal Bullying?
400
Bullying can lead you directly into the court room where you can lose your freedom and liberties which at one time were afforded to you.
Can bullying be considered a crime?
400
(1)attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another, or causes such injury intentionally, knowing or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life;
What is Aggravated Assault?
400
Usually has negative attitudes and beliefs about others, feels negatively toward himself or herself, comes from a family enviornment characterized by conflict and poor parenting, perceives school as negative and is negatively influenced by peers.
Who is a typical Bully?
400
Committing an act with the intent to cause public inconveniance, anoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he: engages in fighting or threratening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior; makes unreasonable noise; uses obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture.
What is Disorderly Conduct?
500
Spreading rumors or stories about someone, telling others about something that was told to you in private, and excluding others from groups.
What is Indirect Bullying?
500
Boys bully more than girls bully.
What have researchers who reviewed 153 studies from the last 30 years revealed?
500
(1) attempts to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to another:
(2) negligently causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon;
(3) attempts by physical menace to put another in fear of imminent serious bodily injury
What is Simple Assault?
500
(1) Youngsters and teens who lack social problem solving skills.
(2) Youngsters and teens who do poorly at school.
Who is more likely to become Bullies?
500
If convicted you may be sentences to a term of imprisonment, the maximum of which is not more than 90 days.