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Sports criminology : a critical criminology of sport and games / Nic Groombridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Groombridge, Nic, author.
- Series:
- New horizons in criminology.
- New horizons in criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminology.
- Sports--Law and legislation.
- Sports.
- Sports--Sociological aspects.
- Crime prevention.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 193 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, it draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.
- 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
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447323198
- 144732319X
- 9781447323174
- 1447323173
- 9781447323181
- 1447323181
- OCLC:
- 951809635
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