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Bullying and Violence in South Korea

From Home to School and Beyond

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Trent Bax

    1. Department of Sociology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

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  • Challenges the belief that bullying and violence in South Korea only occurs in schools and not in wider society
  • Includes original empirical data and data from surveys, historical archives and contemporary media to offer a comprehensive exploration of bullying and violence in context
  • Provides a historical, anthropological, psychological and developmental criminology exploration

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: South Korea’s Young, How Are You Doing?

    • Trent Bax
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Initial Spark: A Contemporary History of School Violence

    • Trent Bax
    Pages 25-88

  4. The Fuel: Consumer Culture, Exclusion, Ethics, and Idols

    • Trent Bax
    Pages 89-146

  5. The Fire: Bullying and Violence by Adults at Work

    • Trent Bax
    Pages 147-202

  6. The Explosion: Political and Personal Reactions to School Violence

    • Trent Bax
    Pages 203-248

  7. The Aftermath-Damage: Developmental Trajectory of Perpetrators of School Violence

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    Pages 249-324

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 325-386
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About this book

This book provides a fully-contextualised, multidisciplinary examination of bullying and violence in South Korean society. Bullying and violence has been a pressing societal issue since 2011, having been labelled as a 'social evil' to be eradicated by the government. However, the issue has been incorrectly confined to schools when in fact it is widespread in society and in professional settings, as Bax argues in this original new text. 

Through twenty in-depth case studies and original case material from a Juvenile Detention Centre, Bax examines the historical, cultural, political and social contexts of bullying and violence to better understand the nature of these crimes, the perpetrators, and how they come together in the broader cultural landscape within which the individual, the family, the school and the community are embedded.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Trent Bax

About the author

Trent Bax is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ewha Womans University. Trent’s teaching and research interest is in the area of deviance and social control. He is the author of the book Youth and Internet Addiction in China.


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