These are large and disturbing numbers that may go well beyond the comfort zone of statistical limitations in terms of its behavioral influence on social structures and adult relationships. ... Purpose of Bullying The purpose of bullying in its adolescent form is for a bully to destroy confidence, abuse normally acceptable social rules of engagement, and instill anxiety, fright, terror, panic, and flight in its victims. ... Higher percentages of teachers regarded bullying-like behaviors (indirect and ambiguous) as bullying than students. ... The concern of many researchers, teachers, and pr...

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., although a small number of studies have examined the incidence of runaway behavior and the characteristics of the young people involved in it. ... Defining homelessness and runaway behavior and distinguishing between the two is important. ... The most reliable estimates, from Caton's point of view, of the size of the problem of runaway behavior comes from a nationwide study carried out by the Opinion Research Corporation in 1976, consisting of a telephone survey of a probability sample of 62,895 households, of which 13,942 included a youth between the ages of 10 and 17. This survey ...

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According to Sue Read, this was simply formal recognition of a factor so all pervading in social life that it has been taken entirely for granted since time immemorial (9). ... In addition, in order to establish a prima facie case, the plaintiff must show that she is in a protected class, that she was subjected to unwelcome behavior based on sex, that her response led to adverse job consequences, and that the employer is liable for the harassment. ... Instead it is the work environment that becomes intimidating, offensive, or hostile because of unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature, or the v...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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