This chapter examines manifestations of punitive culture through experiences of bullying reported by individuals born between 1980 and 2000 in Lithuania. Drawing on the analysis of 67 biographical interviews, it explores how the social, economic, and cultural changes following the restoration of independence shaped children’s and adolescents’ experiences of bullying, authority, and social relationships. Using the frameworks of restorative justice and shame management theory, the chapter shows how weak adult authority, fragmented communities, and prevailing shame-based stigmatisation created conditions in which aggression became an accepted model of behaviour. Bullying is interpreted as a form of punitive peer relationship in which physical, social, or emotional violence established power hierarchies and excluded children perceived as weak or “different.” The chapter further argues that within informal youth communities, punishment and humiliation functioned as tools of social control, while responsibility for bullying was often shifted onto the victim.