Social and legal nature of bullying

The aim of the article is to analyze the concepts of bullying and mobbing, to determine their social and legal nature, to formulate our own definition of these terms. The subject of the study is an analysis of the concepts of bullying and mobbing. The research methodology includes the following methods: system and structural method, formal and dogmatic method, historical method, clustering method, comparative and legal method, legal modeling method and others. The results of the study. The definition of bullying is comprehensively studied, its types are singled out, the phases of its development are determined. Practical implication. The difference between bullying and mobbing, as well as between bullying and conflict, is studied. Value / originality. Based on the research conducted the authors’ concepts of bulling and mobbing are proposed.