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Sports Criminology : A Critical Criminology of Sport and Games /
This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. It draws on the interdisciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology. Written from an...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- SPORTS CRIMINOLOGY
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Author's preface
- 1. Introduction: just men fighting?
- Sport
- Criminology
- Sports law
- Sociology of sport
- Sports criminology
- 2. A criminological history of sport
- Britain makes the rules
- Field/blood sports
- Horse racing
- Boxing
- Football
- Cricket
- Baseball
- College sport
- Athletics
- Sumo
- End game
- 3. Celebrity and corruption: case studies of sports scandals
- The 'gates'
- Badmintongate
- Bountygate
- Bloodgate
- Crashgate
- Eargate
- Skategate
- More sports scandals
- Other sports, other scandals
- 4. Game of two halves: mainstream criminological theory and sport
- Gothic
- Classicism
- Administrative criminology
- Positivism
- Chicago school
- Differential association
- Sub-culture
- Neutralisation
- Control theories
- Right realism
- Labelling
- 5. The second half: critical criminological theory and sport
- New criminology/radical criminology
- Marxism
- Left realist theories
- Feminist criminological theories
- Masculinities
- Gangs in sport
- Super Bowl effect
- Cultural criminology
- Green criminology and rural criminology
- 6. Red card: sport, justice and social control
- Criminal justice as rational/legal
- Criminal justice as a system
- Criminal justice as crime control versus due process
- Criminal justice as politics
- Criminal justice as socially constructed reality
- Criminal justice as growth complex
- Criminal justice as oppression
- Criminal justice as late modernity
- Performance-enhancing drugs
- Corruption
- 'Extra-territoriality' versus globalisation
- 7. Retraining: crime prevention and desistance through sport
- Boxing
- Motor sports
- Crime prevention through sport in general
- Football
- What works?
- One sport better than another?
- Does sport work for women?
- Conclusion
- 8. Conclusion: no such thing as crime, no such thing as sport
- Review of chapters
- Ways forward for sports criminology
- Cases and legislation
- References
- Index.