Bulliying

Despite of having some inferences that support the punishments towards bullies, there are also counter inferences such as bullying is not necessary bad to be punished as criminals. There many types of bullying, for example cyber-bullying, teasing, using different language that other people do not understand and many more. ‘Bullying can also be labeled as direct or indirect.’ (Carpenter & J. Ferguson, 2012). Direct bullying is when the bullies have a physical contact with their prey whereas indirect bullying is when the bullying activity turns out to be verbally or non-physical contact. Usually direct or physical bullying activities occur when the bullies experienced it before, so they want their prey or the weak ones to feel the same way they did. Furthermore, indirect bullying activities happen when the victims are being harmed emotionally and this usually happen because the bullies want attention from other people or their prey. Typically, bullies want their attention because they feel lonely and they want to boost their self-esteem by bullying others. So we cannot totally blame the bullies themselves just because immoral actions towards others. We also have to look the bigger picture or other parties that become the factors of these bullying activities. ‘Bullies tend to come from families that are characterized as having little warmth or affection, these families also report trouble sharing their feelings and usually rate themselves as feeling less close to each other’ (Sognonvi & Sognonvi, 2010). Besides the individual factors, family background also consumes the element of bullying activities. Most of the bullies commit bullying because their parents practice authoritarian parenting style. Authoritarian parenting style is when the parents are too strict, aggressive and their children have limited access of their own freedom of life. ‘Kids who learn to be aggressive or dominating at home are more likely to repeat that behavior in the schoolyard.’ (Sanders,