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This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that's harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive. It challenges the conventional idea of sport as wholesome and beneficial, arguing that sport is often a trigger for crime.
List of contents
1. Sport - A Catalyst for Crime. 2. Connections - Linking Sport and Wrongdoing. 3. Violence - Spillover and Containment. 4. Murder - Passion and Unlawful Killing. 5. Sex Offences - In Plain Sight. 6. Bribery - Betting, Fixing and Fraud. 7. Corporate Lawbreaking - Power of Persuasion. 8. Doping - A Self-Created Problem. 9. Crowds - Tragedies, Flashpoints and the Police. 10. Media - Notoriety and the Public Narrative. 11. Conclusion - AI, Cyber-Crime and Crimes of the Future.
About the author
Ellis Cashmore is the author of
Making Sense of Sport,
Celebrity Culture and
The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson. Professor Cashmore has held positions in sociology at the universities of Hong Kong, Massachusetts and Tampa, USA.
Kevin Dixon is the author of
Consuming Football in Late Modern Life. He is the co-author of
Studying Football,
Online Research Methods in Sports Studies,
Screen Society and
The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Teesside University, UK.
Jamie Cleland is the co-author of
Online Research Methods in Sport Studies, author of
A Sociology of Football in a Global Context and co-author of
Screen Society. He has previously held positions at universities in the UK and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of South Australia.
Summary
This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that’s harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive. It challenges the conventional idea of sport as wholesome and beneficial, arguing that sport is often a trigger for crime.
