Deviance and Social Control in Sport

Drawing on their cutting-edge research in criminology and deviance in the discipline of sociology, the authors provide an understanding of sport-related deviance through the application of various approaches to deviance in a sport context. Using extended case studies, the authors examine the subject of deviance through examples that are popular (fan violence, hockey enforcers, effect of the media), understudied (sport-related violence against animals, athletes as on-field victims of violence), or emerging (sport security, drugs and weight control, cybernetic athletes, extreme sports).The book explains how forms of wanted and unwanted rule violation are produced by and mediated through social contexts in and around sport. This interdisciplinary text challenges readers to explore the dimensions and analytic merit of a full spectrum of crime and deviancy theories, thus stimulating a broader discussion of rule breaking in sport.

ISBN 0736060421   Pages 280 ISBN13 9780736060424 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Human Kinetics Publishers   Weight (grammes) 748 Imprint Human Kinetics Publishers   Published in Champaign Format Hardback   Height (mm) 254 Publication date 01 Sep 2008   Width (mm) 178 Library of Congress 2008015958   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 306.483   Academic level Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22   Interest age From 18 To 99

Pt. I		Deviant Sport Conventions		1
Ch. 1		The Normal and the Pathological in Sport		3
Ch. 2		Sport, Deviancy Theory, and Sociological Research		21
Pt. II		Deviant Sport Communities		49
Ch. 3		Youth Tribes in Sport		51
Ch. 4		Animal Violence in Sport		75
Pt. III		Deviant Athletic Bodies		99
Ch. 5		Body Pathologies in Sport		101
Ch. 6		Illness Narratives and Sport		131
Pt. IV		Mediating Sport Deviance		161
Ch. 7		Criminal Violence in Sport		163
Ch. 8		Terror and Security in Sport		197
Ch. 9		Toward a Public Sociology of Sport Deviance		225
		References		239
		Index		261
		About the Authors		267

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