Cyberbullying is a harmful practice to which schools must respond. Australia does not have a cyberbullying-specific law, so schools navigate their responses within a range of laws not created for the online world, nor for youth. In this study, the murky legal environment of youth cyberbullying was problematised from perspectives found within two Australian secondary school communities. School leaders, key staff, teachers, students, and parents participated in interviews or focus groups held to gather their views about whether a new cyberbullying-specific law was needed to help reduce youth cyberbullying. A thematic analysis found three themes: that an educational approach was favoured over a legal one; that current laws mediated a constrained discussion about the benefit a new cyberbullying-specific law would have for schools and that there were school-identified unmet spaces where the law should be contributing better solutions to youth cyberbullying. Legal responses with implications for reducing youth cyberbullying are discussed.

网络欺凌是学校必须应对的有害做法。澳大利亚没有专门针对网络欺凌的法律，因此学校在一系列并非为网络世界或青少年制定的法律范围内做出回应。在这项研究中，从澳大利亚两个中学社区中发现的角度来看，青少年网络欺凌的阴暗法律环境存在问题。学校领导、主要工作人员、教师、学生和家长参加了访谈或焦点小组讨论，以收集他们对是否需要新的网络欺凌特定法律来帮助减少青年网络欺凌的看法。一项专题分析发现了三个主题：教育方法优于法律方法；现行法律促成了关于新的网络欺凌特定法律对学校的好处的有限讨论，并且存在学校确定的未满足空间，法律应在这些空间中为青年网络欺凌提供更好的解决方案。讨论了对减少青年网络欺凌的影响的法律对策。