Game-day gangsters : : crime and deviance in Canadian football / / Curtis Fogel.

In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already ac...

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Place / Publishing House:Edmonton [Alberta] : : AU Press,, [2013]
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Beaconsfield, Quebec : : Canadian Electronic Library,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Legal cases cited
  • Discerning consent in Canadian sport
  • A brotherhood of violence and mutilation
  • Hazing in the aftermath of McGill's Mr. Broomstick
  • Athletes in the era of performance-enhancing drugs
  • Arenas of toleration in Canadian football
  • Constrained consent on the gridiron
  • Implications of this research == List of interviews.