ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the strategies that have been suggested in the research to date including those referred to in the 1993 and 1999 Prison Service anti-bullying strategies. It also suggests regarding how intervention strategies should account for the different groups involved in bullying. Anti-bullying strategies would be improved, if they were able to outline and standardize ways in which investigations should be conducted. The term bullying is an emotive one and likely to produce a defensive reaction from individuals suspected of being a bully and/or a victim. Since bullying is a product of many factors, some of which are outside the control of prison authorities, the goal of intervention strategies should be the reduction of bullying and not the eradication of it since this is an unobtainable goal. The chapter argues that they are primarily punitive approaches in that the bully is forcibly removed from the prisoner peers and has a number of restrictions placed on them.
