Should bullying carry criminal penalties? The answer to this is yes, I say this because many different types of bullying both physical and verbal can cause permanent damage to the person being bullied and may even cause the person being bullied to commit suicide.
Bullying is not new but it has a new twist- it’s bigger, more people get involved and it doesn’t go away after a fist fight breaks out or words are exchanged no it follow that child home with text messaging, face book comments and chats rooms filled with peoples judgments’, and if that weren’t enough someone is sure to have taken pictures that can bring the pain to the one being bullied back to the front of more aggravation.
When suicide , is a result of bullying there should definitely be criminal punishment because; for example suicide is caused because of either being harassed by either another person or multiple people; and when retracing the steps of the cause of the suicide to the bullying persons these persons will now face murder charges.
Bullying statistics show that 77% of students are bullied mentally, verbally, & physically. Since bullying is affecting such a large range of people some people are going to take it harder than others. This is why we should take the initiative in schools to end bullying once and for all.
When we make a bully carry out criminal; punishment I believe it will open up peoples ears- it will make people listen to others, it will make want to listen to what other people have been through, or see what other people go through with bullying in their life, or in the life of someone that they know. It will also help people understand more thoroughly what the consequences and results of bullying are. I believe that if adults are educated enough in bullying they will pass on their knowledge to their kids and education , on bullying and how wrong it is will continue to be passed on, this will hopefully, and I believe that it will cause the numbers of bullying to go down.
We all know what spam is but it wouldn’t hurt to send out a school wide email with some education, facts, and media showing the cause and effect of this kind of behavior. The more educated the public is the more we can keep our kids safe at school, sports, and even online.
To Bully is very wrong, it doesn’t stop with one person it spreads like a disease. Some of the reasons someone would turn to bullying another person could be due to low self esteem, gay, slow, not part of the group…there are so many reasons one could turn to bullying someone but we all know that violence is the new out come. Just watch the news, from retaliations to suicides.
The only problem with these organizations is that they can try and send out the message that bullying is wrong, but they cannot make people listen, and they cannot truly show people that there are consequences for this, that is why I think that if they make bullying carry out criminal punishment then this will make people listen because it will be a law and if not followed just like any law, their WILL be a punishment, not just a warning.
Physical bullying, Verbal bullying, Indirect bullying, Social alienation, Intimidation, Cyber bullying- bullying doesn’t just happen at school, it can happen at the work place, in our homes- and anyone can be a bully or a target. This is why education on this subject and getting it out to the masses is so important.
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