Confronting Cyber-Bullying: What Schools Need to Know to Control Misconduct and Avoid Legal Consequences [Hardcover]

"Any book entitled "Confronting Cyber-Bullying" would be welcomed eagerly by those to whom this volume is addressed...The subtitle - "What Schools Need to Know to Control Misconduct and Avoid Legal Consequences" - enhances that potential appeal...Shaheen Shariff's book is not simply the only game in town at this still early stage; it also does something that has rarely been done in the field of cyber-law...timely and cogent scholarship...a most welcome innovation for those of us who savor the legal challenges of electronic and digital communication."
--Robert O'Neil, Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and Professor of Law Emeritus and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, First Amendment


"...an interesting overview of cyber-bullying from a legal perspective."
--Matthew L. Newman, PsycCRITIQUES

There is a current policy vacuum relating to the extent of educators' legal responsibilities to intervene when cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expression takes place outside of school hours and school grounds on home computers and personal cell phones. Students, teachers, and school officials are often targets of such expression. The author recommends an approach grounded in legal pluralism to replace zero-tolerance responses that are minimally effective.

Professor Shariff is an Associate Professor in the faculty of education at McGill University. Her publications include Censorship!...or...Selection?: Confronting a Curriculum of Orthodoxy through Pluralistic Models and Cyber-Bullying: Issues and Solutions for the School, the Classroom, and the Home.