Analyses on the Characteristics and the Changes in Spatial Distribution Patterns of the School Bullying in the Daejeon Metropolitan City

School is a place where students who will take care of the future societies spend most of time just like their houses. The school should be a safe space where children and adolescents live happily in both physical and mental ways. However, the school bullying problem is becoming the biggest obstacle in the course of keeping school safe. Therefore, protecting students from the school bullying should be a priority for schools and societies. This study analyzed the characteristics and the changes in the spatial distribution patterns of the school bullying in Daejeon Metropolitan City. The results are as follows; First, the school bullying was the highest in middle school. By gender, more school bullying occurred in boy students than in girl students. Considering the type of school bullying, violence accounted for more than half of the total. Cyber bullying was a type of school bullying that showed high increase rate in recent years. Second, the distribution of school bullying in Daejeon City was clustered and segregated in the specific schools and administrative dong. This study suggests that it is important to develop and apply the school CPTED reflecting spatial characteristics of city.