P025 - Direct and Indirect Victims of Bullying

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Abstract

The application of violence or intimidation to human relationships is always reprehensible and must be combated by the Rule of Law, but when the passive subject of the same is a minor, the zeal of the State must be especially intense, and this for two reasons: firstly, due to the situation of special vulnerability which can be generally predicted for minors; secondly, due to the devastating effects that the use of violence and/or intimidation as a way of relating produces in beings in formation.

The harmfulness of bullying even reaches the children who witness it as mute witnesses with no capacity to react, because on the one hand, an atmosphere of terror is created in which everyone is affected as potential victims, and on the other hand, these children are exposed to the risk of assuming a permanent attitude of passivity, if not tolerance towards violence and injustice.

The family environment of the direct victim also suffers from the harmful effects of bullying as their sons or daughters collapse and fall into despair and depression in the face of the violence they are suffering.

Achieving the objective of achieving an atmosphere of peace and security in and around schools, where children can be properly educated and socialized, must become an inalienable goal.

The radical awareness that has been raised in relation to domestic violence, which has led to zero tolerance treatment, must now be transferred to school bullying. States must be the ultimate guarantors of this

Authors

• Ivana Larrosa Ibañez, Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza, Spain) / Ministry of Justice

• Ivan Luesma Larrosa, Young researcher