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Connecting Adolescent Suicide to the Severity of Bullying and Cyberbullying October 16, 2018
By Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin While previous studies have identified that school bullying and cyberbullying victimization among adolescents is associated with suicidal thoughts and attempts, no work has measured the severity of bullying incidents and their impact on the youth at school within that context. As such, a survey was distributed to a… […]
Cyberbullying Research Center
Sextortion Among Adolescents: Results From a National Survey of U.S. Youth October 16, 2018
By Justin W. Patchin and Sameer Hinduja Sextortion is the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, usually for the purpose of procuring additional images, sexual acts, money, or something else. Despite increased public interest in this behavior, it has yet to be empirically examined among adolescents. The… […]
Cyberbullying Research Center
Sextortion Among Adolescents October 3, 2018
Thirteen-year-old Amanda Todd made a mistake. The British Columbia teen had just moved to a new town and turned to the Internet to meet people. She’d been chatting online with a man whom she’d become interested in. He said she was pretty. After more than a year of communicating with the man, he convinced her… […]
Justin W. Patchin