Mobbing

Mobbing is a special type of consensus bullying behavior.  It is about an imbalance of social, physical or other power involving a group or a person.

Mobbing is like a "virus" or a "cancer" that spreads via gossip, rumour and innuendo. Mobbing is developed or pushed by a leader who persuades others into a systematic pattern of "mob-like" behaviour toward the target.Shallcross, Linda et al. (2008). "Workplace Mobbing: Expulsion, Exclusion, and Transformation,"  2008; retrieved 2013-2-20.

History
Some European languages have adopted "mob" as a loanword to describe special kinds of bullying. 

Checklists
A checklist for identify mobbing behaviour includesWesthues, Kenneth. Checklist of Mobbing Indicators at arts.uwaterloo.ca , 2006; retrieved 2013-2-20.
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 Group focus on a critical incident that "shows what kind of person the "target" really is"
 Shared belief that the target needs "to be taught a lesson"
 Defamation words and reasoning about the target
 Shared negative ideas about the target
 Loss of diversity of argument, so that it becomes dangerous to defend the target
 Addition of the target’s real or imagined mistakes

References

Other websites
  "Tips to Help the Bullying Bystander" at education.com 
  "Tackling the Bullying Culture in Japan's Schools" at jakartaglobe.com

Category:Bullying