APPENDIX 1 TYPES OF BULLYING BEHAVIOURS Behaviour Personal aspects Social aspects Criminal Verbal bullying name calling alienating a person from their friends coercing people or daring them to do illegal acts Deliberately intended and social groups belittling comments, jokes or inciting others to do dangerous things to hurt, intimidate, verbal attacks based on damaging a reputation inciting hatred towards an individual or group base on frighten, harm or appearance, disability, home excluding and not including in small faith, race, sexual orientation or towards those with exclude or situation, family, race, culture, or larger group activities special needs or disabilities income, class, religion, faith, spreading rumours sexual harassment and “sexting” sexual orientation or gender using sexually abusive or suggestive threats about damaging a person, their family, friends nasty teasing language or images to or property, including inflicting physical harm hurting a person’s feelings exclude/harass/intimidate a person intimidating telephone calls sexual harassment or group Taunting based on faith, race, special needs, making personal threats ostracising disabilities or sexual orientation. malicious gossiping Non verbal bullying intimidation through gesture setting someone up to take the Deliberately intended blame publicly hiding, stealing or damaging a stalking to hurt, intimidate, personal belongings. shunning someone not speaking – harm, frighten or dirty looks with or interacting with them exclude a person or sending written threats group Physical bullying Social aspects of physical bullying beating tripping extortion with threats include embarrassment and public a direct physical biting spitting sexual abuse, sexual violence humiliation attack on a choking hitting threatening with a weapon Group bullying is when a child or person kicking poking using a weapon to inflict harm (assault) young person is outnumbered or picked an indirect attack punching throwing physical assault on in some of the following ways: on property or shaking ignoring stealing blocking the way belongings slapping groping or slapping’ ‘happy forced to participate in initiation rites unwanted shoving criminal damage forced to do unwanted things in front touching urinating of others having belongings destroyed, stolen and / or ridiculed demanding money
APPENDIX 1 TYPES OF BULLYING BEHAVIOURS Behaviour Personal aspects Social aspects Criminal Verbal bullying Deliberately intended to hurt, intimidate, frighten, harm or exclude or name calling belittling comments, jokes or verbal attacks based on appearance, disability, home situation, family, race, culture, income, class, religion, faith, sexual orientation or gender nasty teasing hurting a person’s feelings sexual harassment making personal threats alienating a person from their friends and social groups damaging a reputation excluding and not including in small or larger group activities spreading rumours using sexually abusive or suggestive language or images to exclude/harass/intimidate a person or group ostracising malicious gossiping coercing people or daring them to do illegal acts inciting others to do dangerous things inciting hatred towards an individual or group base on faith, race, sexual orientation or towards those with special needs or disabilities sexual harassment and “sexting” threats about damaging a person, their family, friends or property, including inflicting physical harm intimidating telephone calls Taunting based on faith, race, special needs, disabilities or sexual orientation. Non verbal bullying Deliberately intended to hurt, intimidate, harm, frighten or exclude a person or group intimidation through gesture hiding, stealing or damaging a personal belongings. dirty looks sending written threats setting someone up to take the blame publicly shunning someone – not speaking with or interacting with them stalking Physical bullying a direct physical attack on a person an indirect attack on property or belongings beating biting choking kicking punching shaking slapping shoving urinating tripping spitting hitting poking throwing ignoring groping or unwanted touching Social aspects of physical bullying include embarrassment and public humiliation Group bullying is when a child or young person is outnumbered or picked on in some of the following ways: blocking the way forced to participate in initiation rites forced to do unwanted things in front of others having belongings destroyed, stolen and / or ridiculed demanding money extortion with threats sexual abuse, sexual violence threatening with a weapon using a weapon to inflict harm (assault) physical assault stealing ‘happy slapping’ criminal damage
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