Theories explaining the existence of school bullying

Theories explaining the existence of school bullying

The enormity and the effect of mistreatment appear to merit a more extensive researchagenda. Several theories have been developed to explain the existence bullying in most school.Below is a review of three criminological theories that have tried to explain the existence of bullying in schools.

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Low Self-Control theory and bullying

Gottfredson and Hirschi noted that lack of self-control is a prime factor that contributes toillegal and antisocial conducts (2016). They observed that people with poor self-control seeksimmediate gratification, they are physically active, obtuse to others, and have fractionalcognitive skills. They argued that effective parenting practices such as correcting of deviant behav

iors influence kids’ self 

-control development. The parenting practices were assumed to

have a positive impact on individual’s self 

-control, which affected antisocial and illicit conducts(Shetgiri, 2017).Studies have confirmed that there is a substantial positive link between unlawful acts and lowself-control. The study findings indicated that students with poor self-control, often involved inschool victimization and other antisocial acts (Payne and Denise, 2014). Research carried out by(Greener,2015), found that there is a significant definite link between antisocial conducts s andlow self-control. Overall, the research findings found that bullies were likely to be impulsive,were more easily provoked and lacked empathy for others, all related with low self-control(Payne & Denise, 2014