Sticks and Stones: Bullying in America
Thomas Martin
BEH – 331
September 20, 2011
Professor Shalanda Moten
Table of Contents

Introduction 3
Bullying Defined 3
Bullying in Schools 5
Bulling in Gangs 6
Workplace Bullying 7
Innovation in Intervention 8
Aggression Replacement Therapy. 9
Promoting Issues in Common. 11
Managing Workplace Bullying. 12
Conclusion 13

Sticks and Stones: Bullying in America
Introduction
Bullying is an age-old problem that persists into the twenty-first century. Although it is one of the most pervasive issues in American schools, bullying tends to receive very little attention from faculty or administration. Learning institutions often advertise themselves as bully free environments, but events occurring on these campuses are frequently those that are responsible for long-term trauma and for the emotional scarring of those who are victimized. When incidents of bullying are ignored or downplayed, aggressors gain increased confidence and tend to repeat similar offenses. This often creates a cycle of aggression and rule breaking behavior that extends into adulthood. “A study showed that sixty percent of identified bullies during their grade six through nine years eventually were involved in at least one criminal conviction by age twenty-four” (Whitney & Smith, 2007, p. 21). Childhood bullying is not only an issue in its own right. It is one that has also been found to lead to dire consequences in adulthood. Clearly, what is required to break this cycle of behavior and reduce related criminal convictions are early intervention programs that replace bullying behaviors with productive interpersonal skills. Our goal should be to stop bullies during childhood.
Bullying Defined With the mere mention of the subject of bullying, each of us is likely to bring a slightly different definition to mind. For some of us,