TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose This paper addresses the lack of conceptual and theoretical consensus around cyber-bullying and problems associated with over-reliance on mainstream criminological thinking to explain this phenomenon.Methodology/approach The paper offers a critical criminological perspective on cyber-bullying encouraging scholars to engage with fundamental complications associated with the relationship between late-modernity, neo-liberalism and cyber-bullying. It argues for an approach that contextualizes cyber-bullying within the realities and consequences of late-modernity and neo-liberalism.Findings The paper argues that a robust understanding of cyber-bullying entails contextualization of the problem in terms of the realities of consumption, individualism, youth identity formation and incivility in late modern society.Originality/value In addition to challenging extant theoretical approaches to cyber-bullying, the paper has important implications for intervention that surpass the limitations of law and order policies which tend to focus on criminalizing poorly understood bad behaviour or indicting internet technologies themselves.
VL  - 9
SN  - 978-1-78560-262-7, 978-1-78560-263-4/1530-3535
DO  - 10.1108/S1530-353520150000009016
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1530-353520150000009016
AU  - Alvi Shahid
AU  - Downing Steven
AU  - Cesaroni Carla
PY  - 2015
Y1  - 2015/01/01
TI  - The Self and the ‘Selfie’: Cyber-Bullying Theory and the Structure of Late Modernity
T2  - Violence and Crime in the Family: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences
T3  - Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 383
EP  - 406
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -