Bullycide (ou bulicídio) é uma palavra-valise utilizada originalmente em 2001, por Neil Marr e Tim Field no livro Bullycide: Death at Playtime.[1] O termo refere-se a um suicídio atribuído a uma pessoa que sofreu bullying, tanto pessoalmente quanto por cyberbullying.[2][3][4][5][6]
Bulicídio também pode ser um assassinato que teve o bullying como causa.[7] O termo se tornou popular após uma série de suicídios que ocorreram nos Estados Unidos em 2010 por conta de bullying, apesar de o termo também já ter sido utilizado previamente em diversos trabalhos bibliográficos.[8][9][10]
Várias celebridades apoiaram a causa contra o bulicídio, entre elas Lady Gaga e Kim Kardashian.[11][12][13][14]
Attempting suicide because of being bullied in school is a shocking and sometimes inexplicable choice that many young people are making today in middle schools and high schools across America. This tragic form of death, known as Bullycide, is triggered by relentless bullying and depression. Neil Marr and the late Tim Field first coined the term in their book, Bullycide: Death at Playtime.
Our research reveals that each year in the UK at least 16 children commit bullycide and around 80 children attempt bullycide
'Bullycide' is the word that has been used to describe children who commit suicide because of bullies
Yale professor Young-Shin Kim has done research on what's been termed "bullycide" and has found that victims of bullying are 5.6 times more at risk of attempting or thinking about suicide.
'Bullycide' is a slang term that refers to the murder of a bully by the victim, which is very rare
A Kentucky family has sued the principal of Allen Central Middle School in Floyd County, Kentucky, and school district officials for the bullycide of their 13-year old son. Stephen Lawrence Patton, an 8th grader at Allen Central Middle School, died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head on November 28, 2007.
Chatsworth authorities say no charges will be filed in the Bully-cide death of a Murray County High School junior.
PSYCHOLOGISTS are warning parents to arm their children against bullying before they start school as "bullycide" becomes one of the biggest issues facing the education system.
Teachers, especially, may experience the "bargaining" described by Kübler-Ross. After a bullycide, teachers start asking, "If we had done things differently, could we have helped more?"
At the heart of these so-called bullycides is a major muscle that is underdeveloped: compassion. We need to develop compassionate habits in our hearts and homes.
The schoolyard bully: Who doesn’t carry a memory of that childhood nemesis? But fueled by the Internet and other social trends, a tragic twist on the old problem has pierced the American conscience: ‘Bullycide,’ the escape, by suicide, from peer harassment.
The term 'Bullycide' has been criticized by legal analysts because it suggests that the bully was personally responsible for the victim's death. In Brian's case no bully pulled the trigger; the victim did.
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