Description:
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 international perspective, it covers topics including sports scandals and the possibility of crime prevention through sport. American football, boxing, soccer and sumo are all examined.
The book considers both sports law and the sociology of sport and will be essential reading for students and academics in these fields.
Brief description: Nic Groombridge is a Senior Lecturer at St Mary's University, Twickenham and researches on media, gender, masculinities, CCTV, Car Crime, Surveillance, criminal justice policy and politics, virtual criminology and video games, green criminology, queer criminology, cultural criminology and sport. He has published widely on these topics and is regularly invited to comment in the media. Nic also writes a blog: http: //publiccriminology.weebly.com/index.html and a sports criminology one: http: //sportscriminology.blogspot.co.uk/. He tweets as @criminology4u. A one-time rugby union player he now mostly jogs but has participated in a wide variety of sports.
Review Quotes: "The book does a fantastic job of introducing readers to sports criminology and offers a starting point for those interested in critical criminology of sport." Human Enhancement Drugs