Comprehensive anti-bullying programs reduce bullying without displacing it elsewhere

Evidence

A stringent evaluation found that the program markedly reduced bullying at each age level (Olweus, 1991). Interventions to reduce aggression must also test for possible displacement effects, but there was no shift of bullying from school to non-school settings. The program has had additional positive generalized effects. It reduced truancy and antisocial behavior and increased satisfaction with school life. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 290

Categorization

• XREF: The displacement-effect test echoes the Milgrom work on whether informal sanctions merely push wrongdoing elsewhere rather than eliminating it. — connects to: A spike of child suicides triggered Norway’s nationwide anti-bullying program
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 290