Research

Negative online behaviours

1. Threatening behaviour e.g. credible death threats,
stalking
2. Trolling – the trend of anonymously seeking to provoke
outrage by posting insults and abuse online
3. Blackmail including revenge porn
4. Cyberbulling – writing messages with intent to cause
distress or anxiety in a public place (e.g. Twitter,
excluding people from online groups (e.g. Facebook)
5. Grooming online – causing or encouraging a child under
the age of 18 to engage in sexual activity online or
meeting them in person after online contact
6. Fake profiles – only illegal if someone is trying to
deceive someone for personal gain / fraud / harassment
/ intercepting someone else’s messages / stalking
7. Hacking accounts
8. Tagging photos with defamatory or negative comments

Defining online sexual harasment

-non consensual intimate images and videos
A person’s sexual images and videos being shared without their consent or taken without their consent.

-exploitation, coercion and threats
A person receiving sexual threats, being coerced to participate in sexual behaviour online, or blackmailed with sexual content.

-sexualised bullying
A person being targeted by, and systematically excluded from, a group or community with the use of sexual content that humiliates, upsets or discriminates against them.

-unwanted sexualisation

Impact of online sexual harassment

Sexual harassment of this kind can make a person feel any of the following:

-Threatened or scared
-Exploited
-Coerced
-That their dignity is violated
-Humiliated or degraded
-Shamed or judged
-Upset
-Sexualised
-Discriminated against because of their gender or
sexualorientation
-Feel guilty or that they are to blame

This is an email we received about a sexual harassment that happened in school and the link connected to the instagram page: https://instagram.com/
calloutdutchartinstitutions
?igshid=6t92btob5vp7

Intimidation

Intimidation may be employed consciously or unconsciously, and a percentage of people who employ it consciously may do so as the result of selfishly rationalized notions of its appropriation, utility or self-empowerment. Intimidation related to prejudice and discrimination may include conduct "which annoys, threatens, intimidates, alarms, or puts a person in fear of their safety...because of a belief or perception regarding such person's race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct."

Intimidation may be manifested in such manner as physical contacts, glowering countenance, emotional manipulation, verbal abuse, making someone feel lower than you, purposeful embarrassment and/or actual physical assault.

Abuse of power

Abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of "malfeasance in office" or "official misconduct", is the commission of an unlawful act, done in an official capacity, which affects the performance of official duties. Malfeasance in office is often a just cause for removal of an elected official by statute or recall election. Officials who utilize abuse of power are often those who exploit the ability to use corruption in their advantage.

Institutional abuse

Institutional abuse is the maltreatment of someone (often children or older adults) by a system of power. This can range from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse, to the effects of assistance programs working below acceptable service standards, or relying on harsh or unfair ways to modify behavior.