ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the perceived and actual characteristics of the different groups involved in bullying. Prison-based researchers have tended to concentrate on two distinct groups, bullies and victims. Regarding victims, both prisoners and staff perceive them to possess a number of characteristics. N. Loucks reported that victims were more likely than non-victims to have been convicted for a violent offence, whereas K. G. Power and colleagues reported that victims were less likely to have been convicted for a violent offence in comparison to bullies, bully/victims and those not-involved. The role of empathy in relation to bullying among a sample of male and female prisoners. The bullying behaviour of bully/victims may not be so closely related to psychopathy since their behaviour is conceptualised more as a defensive response to their own victimisation. Indeed, it could be speculated that some bullying may be better described in relation to psychopathy as opposed to being described solely as a subsection of aggressive behaviour.
