The most effective approaches to combating cyber bullying in educational institutions

Cyber bullying is a growing pandemic that is presently most often experienced by young people, with the consequences expressed in schools, or bullying via the use of computers, as shown by the statistics. Many of the hallmarks of face-to-face bullying are present in cyber bullying, including a power imbalance and a sense of powerlessness on the side of the victim. Not surprisingly, targets of face-to-face bullying are increasingly resorting to the law, and targets of online bullying are likely to do likewise if the circumstances is appropriate. As a result, this study examines the many laws on criminal, civil, and vilification that may apply to cyber bullying cases and investigates the effectiveness of these laws in terms of resolving the power imbalance that exists between victims and bullies.