Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying

Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying
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To properly assess the social importance of bullying, it is important to examine existing information on the subject to lay a conceptual framework that includes the existing information on the issue. Hence, working with existing information refers collecting data samples from different places such as academic publications, archival data or cultural products. Also, to study and use that information, it has to be interpreted and analyzed to avoid bias and mistakes. Therefore, this preliminary examination draws from existing data to show which agent of socialization is responsible for bullying.
Undoubtedly, bullying is linked to a myriad of aspects, starting from the agents of socialization. Consequently, this essay shall speak about the relationship between bullying and the family. According to Barbara Colorosso, children can display behaviors rooted in meanness and hatred. Without adequate familiar intervention, this behaviors can turn into heinous displays such as bullying. Hence, it is a labor of the families to instill an adequate set of values to counter these tendencies that might not directly harm them but will damage their community. Likewise, there is a correlation between bullying and their environments, as more often than not they come from houses where they are bullied, which becomes a full circle where the aggressor intends to inflict at least a portion of the damage he has received as a form of retribution.

To sum up, one of the root reasons behind bullying is family. The collected data points that bullied children often try to repeat these abuse patterns in their communities and schools, causing a cycle that never ends as these bullied students are subject not only to physical coercion but to psychological distress that might lead to self-loathing, depressing behavior or violence. Therefore, to catch up bullying before it “spreads”, it needs to gain recognition and more advocates such as Colorosso, who vows to teach the best ways to prevent it.