Should Australia Have a Law against Cyberbullying? Problematising the Murky Legal Environment of Cyberbullying from Perspectives within Schools

Autor/inn/en	Pennell, Donna; Campbell, Marilyn; Tangen, Donna; Knott, Andrew
Titel	Should Australia Have a Law against Cyberbullying? Problematising the Murky Legal Environment of Cyberbullying from Perspectives within Schools
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 49 (2022) 4, S.827-844 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pennell, Donna) ORCID (Campbell, Marilyn) ORCID (Tangen, Donna) ORCID (Knott, Andrew)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-021-00452-w
Schlagwörter	Bullying; Computer Mediated Communication; Secondary School Students; Secondary School Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; School Personnel; Legislation; Foreign Countries; Intervention; Laws; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mobbing; Computerkonferenz; Sekundarschüler; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Elternverhalten; Schulpersonal; Gesetzgebungslehre; Ausland; Law; Recht; Australien
Abstract	Cyberbullying is a harmful practice to which schools must respond. Australia does not have a cyberbullying-specific law, so schools navigate their responses within a range of laws not created for the online world, nor for youth. In this study, the murky legal environment of youth cyberbullying was problematised from perspectives found within two Australian secondary school communities. School leaders, key staff, teachers, students, and parents participated in interviews or focus groups held to gather their views about whether a new cyberbullying-specific law was needed to help reduce youth cyberbullying. A thematic analysis found three themes: that an educational approach was favoured over a legal one; that current laws mediated a constrained discussion about the benefit a new cyberbullying-specific law would have for schools and that there were school-identified unmet spaces where the law should be contributing better solutions to youth cyberbullying. Legal responses with implications for reducing youth cyberbullying are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01