Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where Do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin?

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How do teens know when they might be "one click away from the clink"? In Teen Cyberbullying Investigated, Judge Tom Jacobs presents a powerful collection of landmark court cases involving teens and charges of cyberbullying, which includes: sending insulting or threatening emails, text, or instant messages directly to someone; spreading hateful comments about someone through emails, blogs, or chat rooms; stealing passwords and sending out threatening messages using a false identity; and building a Web site to target specific people. Each chapter features the seminal case and resulting decision, asks readers whether they agree with the decision, and urges them to think about how the decision affects their lives. Chapters also include related cases, important facts and statistics, and suggestions for further reading. With an ever-increasing number of serious cases of cyberbullying and school violence, this book is needed more urgently than ever.

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A Google user
January 19, 2012
I am actually mentioned in this book. Hi, my name is Carlson Muss, and I found out today that I am used to make one of Thomas A. Jacobs' examples. Mr. Jacobs and I have never met, and I can assure you his book has been written from newspaper clippings. There is more honesty in this review thread than there is in his book. I am not a cyber bully, in fact, I have a tremendous amount of love and humor. And I speak out against injustices in people. The website that I wrote was satirical, and everyone mentioned was a close personal friend of mine. The site was misinterpreted, and I'm glad I won the lawsuit because at the time, I was a honor roll 4.0 student, lead in the school play, first chair trumpet... All in all a good and popular kid, who had no malintent whatsoever. And I hope similar outspoken people don't go through the ordeal I went through. This case had nothing to do with cyber bullying and cyber bullying was never mentioned. I was the won who sued... Not the other way around... and Thomas Jacobs is an apparent hack.
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A Google user
October 13, 2010
this book focuses on the crude comments teens make about teachers and adults it barely has any of the serious stories. of course it has all of the stories that make teens loook bad and the ones where they focus their anger at teachers that really dont mean a thing maybe some do go far but adults can handle things better than teens so thats y this book is not rite because their are so many teens that kill them selves because of cyberbullying but its all about the adults
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June 15, 2010
Is about my brother. I was 6 at the time this was happening but im now 14. The related story you said was like his situtation was not like his at all. My brother said nothing wrong. He was at home and the one he did from school a teacher approved!! You did seem to forget to mention that the school tried to get the teacher that approved of his message to say she did't. My brother did nothing wrong he did not go to far the comments on the page made by others were to far. If anybody went to far it was the school. They dont have the right to punish students for what they say outside of school no matter what negative attention it brings to the school. I remember learning about something lik that in school..... ohhhhh whatttt was that? hmmmm FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!! FIRST AMENDMENT! so Thomas A. Jacobs my brother did not do anything wrong get your facts straight! Jack Flaherty Jr's little sister
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About the author

Thomas a. Jacobs, J.D., was an Arizona Assistant Attorney general from 1972-1985, where he practiced criminal and child welfare law. He was appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court in 1985 where he served as a judge pro tem and commissioner in the juvenile and family courts until his retirement in 2008. He also taught juvenile law for ten years as an adjunct professor at the Arizona State University School of Social Work. He continues to write for teens, lawyers, and judges. His recent articles on teens and the law have been published in The New York Times and New York ParentGuide. His previous books include What Are My Rights?, They Broke the Law--You Be the Judge, and Teens Take It to Court. Judge Jacobs also maintains the popular Web site "Ask the Judge: Answers for Teens About the law" at www.askthejudge.info.

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