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Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others. The behavior can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power. It can include verbal harassment or threat,physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, behavior, or ability.[2][3] Ifbullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing.[4] The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target".
Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legaldefinition of bullying,[5] while some U.S. states have laws against it.[6]Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercionsuch as intimidation.
Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primarybully in his or her bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse.[7] Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rakish.
A bullyingculture can develop in any context in which human beings interact with each other. This includes school, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods. In a 2012 study of male adolescent football players, "thestrongest predictor was the perception of whether the most influential male in a player's life would approve of the bullying behavior".[8]

El acoso escolar (también conocido como hostigamientoescolar, matonee escolar, matoneo escolar o por su término inglés bullying) es cualquier forma de maltrato psicológico, verbal o físico producido entre escolares de forma reiterada a lo largo de un tiempodeterminado. Estadísticamente, el tipo de violencia dominante es el emocional y se da mayoritariamente en el aula y patio de los centros escolares. Los protagonistas de los casos de acoso escolar...