Full Description
This book takes a critical look at how leisure and sport intersect with crime and harm. Bringing together leading scholars in criminology, sociology, sport science, social work and psychology, it shows how recreational and elite sporting spaces can foster prosocial development but also generate significant social inequalities and injustices.
Through diverse empirical cases - including sexual abuse in sport, environmental harms at mega-events, performance enhancing drugs, athlete criminality, organised crime, deviant fandom, policing, rehabilitation and desistance - the book provides readers with an analytically rich framework for understanding sport and leisure as dynamic areas where power, inequality, harm and social transformation converge. The book's interdisciplinary approach equips researchers, practitioners and students with unique insights into the issues and transformative potential of these domains.
Timely, authoritative and globally relevant, this book is essential reading for scholars and students in criminology, sociology of sport, leisure studies, sports science and social policy, as well as practitioners working in youth justice, community sport, safeguarding, and sport-based interventions more broadly.
Contents
1. Introduction: Developing a Criminology of Leisure and Sport Part One: Abuse and Harm 2. Situating Sexual Abuse in Sporting Communities and Cultures 3. Relegating Football Dreams: Social Harm in the Elite Boys' Football Youth Academy System 4. The Winter Olympic Villages: Between Activism and Environmental Crimes Part Two: Optimisation and Enhancement 5. Unprescribed Use of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids in Men: Criminals or Sporting and Muscle Enthusiasts? 6. Rethinking Weight Cutting in Combat Athletics: From Suffering to Success 7. The Dark Side of Mental Toughness: The Facade of Invulnerability Part Three: Sport Participants and Criminality 8. Mixed Martial Arts, Organised Crime and The Night-Time Economy: MMA Fighters Who Work as Bouncers and Become Drug Traffickers 9. Exploring Athlete Criminality Part Four: Policing and Governance 10. Who Pays for the Policing of Sport? International Comparisons and the Problems with 'User Pays' Policing 11. Football 'Ultras', Commodification and Criminalisation: Deviant Leisure and Celtic FC's Green Brigade 12. Beyond the 'Paradox' of Exclusion and Inclusion of Skateboarding in Japanese Urban Space: An Attempt to Grasp Skateboarding as a Pro-Social Activity Part Five: Intervention, Desistance and Rehabilitation 13. Conducting Ethical and Empowering Research with Incarcerated Youth in Sport-Based Settings 14. Considering the Value of Combat-Sport Participation in Supporting Desistance for Electronic Monitoring Users: A Synergist for Reform or Criminogenic Catalyst? 15. Wrestle for Humanity: An Open Dialogue about Transforming Lives Through the Sport of Wrestling
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