The meaning of peer harassment in the United States

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. In addition to this book, see Juvonen and Graham (2001 Juvonen, J. and Graham, S. 2001. Peer Harassment in School: The Plight of the Vulnerable and Victimized, New York: Guilford. [Google Scholar]) and Sanders and Phye (2004 Sanders, C. E. and Phye, G. D. 2004. Bullying: Implications for the Classroom, San Diego, CA: Elsevier. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]). 2. For example, based on information provided by their respective school districts for the 2002–2003 school year, the Hartford, Connecticut (53% Latino, 40% African American, 6% White, 1% Asian), Denver, CO (57% Latino, 20% White, 19% African American, 3% Asian, 1% Native American), and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (37% African American, 30% White, 25% Latino, 5% Native American, and 3% Asian) school districts no longer have White‐majority student populations. 3. Topeka, Kansas (54% White, 22% African American, 13% Asian, 9% Latino, 2% Native American); and Anchorage, Alaska (59% White, 13% Alaskan Native, 11% Asian, 8% African American, 6% Latino, 3% Multi‐racial). Additional informationNotes on contributorsAdrienne NishinaThe book reviewed here is D. L. Espelage and S. M. Swearer (eds), Bullying in American Schools: A Social‐Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004), xxi + 385 pp., US$99.95 (hbk), ISBN 0‐8058‐4559‐3, US$45.00 (pbk), ISBN 0‐8058‐4560‐7. Adrienne Nishina is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis, Davis CA 95616, USA; anishina@ucdavis.edu Her research interests include the psychosocial, physical, and academic correlates of peer victimization; policy and practice related to school mental health; and ethnic diversity and cultural contexts in schools.Amy D. BellmoreAmy Bellmore is an APA/IES Postdoctoral Education Research Training Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include the academic and psychological consequences of peer victimization and aggression; the significance of ethnicity and ethnic contexts for social development during adolescence; and the development of inter‐personal perception within peer relationships.