One particular point of concern with the term mobbing related to the relative importance ofthe group versus its individual members. The notion that school mobbing is a matter of collective aggression by a relatively homogeneous group did in my view obscure the relative contributions made by individual members or small subgroups. More specifically, the role of particularly active perpetrators or bullies could easily be lost sight of within this group framework. In this context, I also questioned how often the kind of all-against-one situations implied in mobbing actually occur in school. If harassment by a small group or by a single individual were the more frequent type in schools, the concept of mobbing might, for example, result in teachers having difficulty identifying the phenomenon of bullying in their classrooms. In addition, the concept of mobbing often seems to place responsibility for potential problems with the recipient of the collective aggression, the victim, who is seen as irritating or provoking the majority of ordinary students in one way or another. This was clearly the situation in the early Swedish debate.