ABSTRACT
What can be done about cyber-bullying? In reply this chapter synthesizes two broad literatures: one is comprised of studies of ‘cyberbullying’ and cyber-risk together with the theory of reintegrative shaming; the other analyses the theoretical foundations of both restorative practices and programmes of restorative justice. The authors offer neither a systematic treatment of cyberbullying per se, nor a comprehensive review of school-based responses. Instead, they proceed with an overview, wider and more generalized in scope, of cyber-risk and cyberbullying, followed by an explication of reintegrative shaming and its link to school-based responses to cyberbullying. The argument for the application of restorative practices to address cyber-risk in schools is developed and various challenges regarding implementation are addressed.
