Sports Criminology : : A Critical Criminology of Sport and Games / / Nic Groombridge.
This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. It draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology. Written from an...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Horizons in Criminology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series editor’s preface
- Author’s preface
- Introduction: just men fighting?
- A criminological history of sport
- Celebrity and corruption: case studies of sports scandals
- Game of two halves: mainstream criminological theory and sport
- The second half: critical criminological theory and sport
- Red card: sport, justice and social control
- Retraining: crime prevention and desistance through sport
- Conclusion: no such thing as crime, no such thing as sport
- Cases and legislation
- References
- Index