Volume : IV, Issue : XI, November - 2014

Cyberbullying: A Socio–Legal Perspective

Dr. Aarti Tolia

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The online harassment and cruel pranks played by teens and adolescents by forming hate groups to isolate and defame their peer/s can be termed as Cyberbullying. This paper attempts to highlight negative effects of peer aggression on the overall development of teens and adolescents and critically analyzes whether cyberbullying is affiliated with driving the victim to suicide. The recent statistics on cyberbullying show 52 percent teenagers complain of being cyber bullied. Moreover, social Networking Sites (SNSs) act as catalyst platform for cyber bullying. The paper delineates the root cause of the problem, the current vacuum of legal obligation and thereby providing preventive suggestions to combat cyber bullying

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Dr. AARTI TOLIA Cyberbullying: The Socio-Legal Perspective Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue : 11 November 2014

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