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Strategies Youth Can Use to Prevent Cyberbullying
• Never accept friend or network requests from unfamiliar people.
• Block threatening or questionable people from seeing your profile and personal information.
• Avoid sites, networks, and applications that have poor security, provide easy access to personal information.
• Limit involvement in social networking to a few familiar sites.
Law enforcement officers, will undoubtedly become involved in a cyberbullying case at some point
during their tenure. Interestingly, international respondents were significantly less likely to believe
that law enforcement should get involved in crime behaviors but significantly more likely to believe
that they should get involved in non-crime behaviors.
Certainly, more research is necessary to better understand the nature of this issue, but perhaps
international officers are trained to become involved in a variety of behaviors of a criminal nature.
While international respondents represent different legal and cultural context than our respondents.
Law enforcement leaders who had children at home expressed a greater desire than those who did
not for the police to get involved in cyberbullying behaviors of a criminal nature.
In contrast, supervisors who had worked in school environments were more responsive to the role
police should play in dealing with non-crime forms of cyberbullying. While the exact explanation is
unclear, perhaps officers with experience working in schools had developed better understandings of
the meaningful effects even non-criminal forms of bullying can have on youth, thus seeing those
behaviors as more serious and meriting more formalized responses.
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