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Studies concerning bullying have typically focused on peer bullying, whilst cross-peer abuse has not received as much attention. This literature review concentrates on investigating cross-peer abuse in a school context. This study examines what sort of violence or bullying teachers face from students and parents and ponders which factors effect bullying and how it could be prevented. Both systematic and coincidental bullying are included in this study. Previous studies of this subject are scarce and mostly all but one is over ten years old. The target of this study is to increase knowledge of cross-peer abuse in school context, to bring forth the importance of the subject and to provide new subjects for studying. This study investigated bullying and violence that teachers face from pupils and parents. The literature review was based on central, high-quality and original papers of the area of research. The review concluded and summarized central results of national studies and compared them with international studies. Teachers faced some bullying and violence from both students and parents. Students dis-ruptive behavior was more typical than parents. Most of the time harassing was verbal but some of the teachers have also faced sexual harassment and physical violence. Physi-cal violence in primary schools seemed to be qualitatively different than physical violence in secondary schools. Coincidental bullying appeared more than systematic bullying. In a wider context, a teachers gender didn’t matter in victimization but there were differences in single forms of violence. Usually students who bullied teachers were boys. Teachers sug-gested that as a solution for bullying problem solving skills and negotiation skills should be improved among students and parents should have support for parenting. Also, school management seemed to have a significant role in preventing bulling.