VASILIKI ARTINOPOULOU is Professor of Criminology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece, where she previously served as Vice Rector. She currently leads the Greek Prime Minister's Expert Committee on Youth Violence and is a member of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. Her work centers on justice, human rights, and crime prevention in Europe and beyond.

PETER K. SMITH is Research Fellow at University of Greenwich, UK. He has led extensive research on bullying in schools, including a COST Action on Cyberbullying. Smith has published widely on the topic and co-edited The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Bullying: A Comprehensive and International Review of Research and Intervention, a landmark reference in the field of bullying research.

SUSAN P. LIMBER is Dan Olweus Professor at Clemson University, where she also is Associate Director of the Institute on Family & Neighborhood Life. A developmental psychologist and expert in legal issues related to bullying, Limber has consulted for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and co-authored key works such as Cyberbullying: Bullying in the Digital Age.

KYRRE BREIVIK is Senior Researcher at the Regional Centre for Child and Youth (RKBU) at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre. He has published extensively in leading journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Journal of School Psychology. Breivik's work focuses on developmental issues, bullying, and interventions for improving well-being among children and adolescents.

List of Contributors vii

Editorial ix

Preface xi

Part I Dan Olweus- A Life 1

1 Our Father Dan 3
Cecilia Olweus and Johanna Olweus

2 Early Years in Sweden and the Larger Stockholm Study 21
Kyrre Breivik and Peter K. Smith

3 Olweus and the 1983 Norwegian Campaign Against Bullying- The Root of His Anti-Bullying Program 35
Erling Roland Copyrighted Material

4 The Later Years 53
Kyrre Breivik and Susan P. Limber

Part II The School Bullying Research Program 71

5 The Growth of the School Bullying Program and the Impact of Dan Olweus 73
Peter K. Smith

6 Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Bullying 96
Dewey G. Cornell

7 Ensuring Children's Rights to School and Digital Safety 116
Magnus Loftsson

8 Losing Two Great Guiding Stars, Olweus and Morita: What Japanese Researchers Learned from Them 136
Yuichi Toda

9 Dan Olweus and School Bullying Research in China: Impact and New Forms of Progress 147
Wenxin Zhang and Linqin Ji

Part III Research Challenges 173

10 Ecological Momentary Assessment of Targeted Interventions Addressing Bullying: What Are the Benefits? 175
Christina Salmivalli, Daniel Graf, and Lydia Laninga-Wijnen

11 Considering a More Inclusive Definition of Bullying : Implications for a Whole-Education Approach to Bullying 191
James O'Higgins Norman, Darran Heaney, and Christopher Donoghue

12 The Legacy of Olweus on Bias-Based or Prejudice-Based Bullying 207
Paolo Antonelli and Dziuginta Baraldsnes

Part IV Developing Interventions Against School Bullying 227

13 The Development and Efficacy of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program 229
Susan P. Limber

14 The School as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS) 247
Phillip T. Slee and Rosalyn H. Shute

15 The Contribution of Civil Society in Policies Against Bullying 265
Vasiliki Artinopoulou

16 The Role of Policies and the Law Against Bullying 287
Zoe Vaill and Marilyn Campbell

Commentary 305

Index 318