Research on bully/victim problems over the past 15 years or so has exploded, and there has beena parallel increase in attention from the media, schools, and relevant authorities. In my view,this has been a successful and fortunate development by and large. Like any relatively new field,however, the field of bullying research is to some extent plagued by problems, disagreements,and unresolved issues. To achieve a solid and coherent body of knowledge with well-replicatedfindings, it is important to reach some consensus on important conceptual and methodologicalissues. In this review, I take a largely critical-analytical approach and focus more on problems thanon successes. I begin by describing how my own interest and research on these problems started