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Description
Mainstream research on bullying and peer violence in schools has primarily focused on analyzing the roles of students, and narrowly searching for causes at the level of the perpetrators, their families, and schools. Recently, researchers have begun to address this issue from a broader perspective by incorporating social-ecological theory and explaining the causes of violence at various levels of the social system and their interrelationships and interconnections. From this perspective, violence in schools must be understood as the outcome of many sub-processes, forms of violence, and caused harm, which influence students, schools, parents, and communities embedded in social, political, economic, and cultural environments. These initial harms culminate in various forms of violence in schools, including bullying and peer violence. This paper aims to identify and deconstruct these sub-processes, forms of violence, and harms, and to determine at which level and how they (co)influence schools, teachers, students, and parents and what is their impact on bullying and peer violence in schools. Furthermore, we aim to explore how micro and meso structures (those close, near, reachable, and changeable) connected to, but not limited to, schools can be used to mitigate the effects of distal meso/macro structures on peer violence. We believe this can be achieved by applying the principles of constitutive criminology and replacement discourse, which not only deconstruct dominant discourses but also reconstruct alternative foundations with new conceptions, narratives, and meanings. Social structures should internalize replaced discourses and mutually reinforce their positions on non-violence.
Keywords
Bullying and peer violence prevention
Social-ecological theory
Constitutive criminology
Replacement discourse
Mitigating societal impact on bullying
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