Citation

Sekol I, Farrington DP, Ireland JL. J. Aggress. Confl. Peace Res. 2016; 8(2).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Emerald Group Publishing)

DOI

10.1108/JACPR-12-2015-0203

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

While there is a substantial amount of research investigating bullying in schools, research on bullying and peer violence in secure settings (e.g. prisons, secure care homes, or forensic psychiatric facilities) is rather limited. Living in secure settings of any kind, however, implies operating in a more or less inescapable social system. The unique nature of the "institutional" social context, together with individual characteristics of its residents, makes bullying and/or peer violence in institutions arguably more complex than school bullying and worth separate investigation and preventative strategies...

Language: en