@article{ref1,
title="Behaviours indicative of bullying among young and juvenile male offenders: A study of perpetrator and victim characteristics",
journal="Aggressive behavior",
year="2006",
author="Ireland, Jane L. and Monaghan, Rachel",
volume="32",
number="2",
pages="172-180",
abstract="The actual characteristics of young offenders involved in behaviours indicative of &quot;bullying others&quot; or of &quot;being bullied&quot; have received only limited research attention. No research to date has focused on prison-based behavioural characteristics. The present study aimed to explore these characteristics in a sample of young and juvenile mate offenders. Subsidiary aims included examining the nature and extent of behaviours indicative of bullying, and the extent to which a developmental model of aggression can be applied to a prison sample. One hundred and thirty-three offenders (102 young and 31 juvenile) completed a behavioural measure of behaviours indicative of bullying (Direct and Indirect Prisoner Behaviour Checklist). Juvenile offenders were more likely to report &quot;being bullied&quot; physically than young offenders and were less likely to report &quot;bullying others&quot; overall, directly and psycbologically/verbally. Young offenders were more likely to be classified as &quot;bully/victims&quot; than juveniles. Prison-based behavioural characteristics were more predictive of membership to the perpetrator and/or victim groups than personal descriptive characteristics such as age, sentence length, offence type, ethnic origin and total amount of time spent in prison. Bully/victims were predicted by increased negative and drug-related behaviour and pure victims by decreased positive behaviour. There were no significant predictors for pure bullies. Bully/victims were found to react more aggressively to their victimization than pure victims. The present findings suggest that there are reliable predictors of involvement as a perpetrator and/or victim among young and juvenile samples. The findings are compared to previous research and discussed with regard to the environment in which bullying behaviour is being assessed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-140X",
doi="10.1002/ab.20116",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.20116"
}