Moral Communities in Anti-Doping Policy: A Response to Bowers and Paternoster

Macedo, Emmanuel; Englar‐Carlson, Matt; Lehrbach, Tim; Gleaves, John

doi:10.1080/17511321.2017.1371791

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“…Since these moral communities can be characterized by social integration and a set of shared beliefs about morality that shape members' behavior (Durkheim 1992), Bowers and Paternoster (2016) as well as Macedo et al (2017) propose to focus on these communities to implement and foster a more ethical and effective anti-doping strategy.…”

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Risk in Sports and Challenges for Sports Organizations

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2023

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Section: Consideration Of the Existence Of Social Normsmentioning

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Risk in Sports and Challenges for Sports Organizations

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2023

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Doping Sanctions in Sport: Knowledge and Perception of (Legal) Consequences of Doping—An Explorative Study in Austria

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Flatscher‐Thöni

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Anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) can lead to sports-related and legal sanctions, thus, being knowledgeable is important. Research into this knowledge and how athletes and their support personnel (ASP) perceive the control mechanisms and the appropriateness of (legal) sanctions is still scarce. This explorative study aimed to examine the knowledge and perception of existing (legal) sanctions in Austria, by distributing a questionnaire to Austrian athletes and ASP covering the topics of knowledge related to legal and sports-related consequences associated with a specific ADRV presented in a case study, their trust and satisfaction with specific agencies (based on the European Social Survey (ESS)) and perceived efficiency and effectiveness of the doping control system. Data were analyzed descriptively. All respondents (N = 59) agreed on a ban from sport to be appropriate. Knowledge about legal consequences and the trust in the judiciary and the sport governing bodies was moderate (6.82 out of 10). Perceived appropriate consequences were on average higher than the likely sanctions to be faced. Future prevention should include trust building measures in the institutions and the control system, improvement in terms of access to law and education for the target group and critical reflection on the existence of social norms. Furthermore, the implementation of risk management aspects should be part of future approaches.

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“…Several authors have highlighted the ethical problems of these practices (e.g. Dimeo and Møller 2018;Macedo et al 2019;Sandvik 2019).…”

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‘Fair Play’ as a Larger Loyalty: The Case of Anti-Doping

Sandvik

2020

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

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This paper explores a redescription of 'fair play' as loyalty. Focusing on the context of elite sport and the case of anti-doping, the paper develops an adaptation of Richard Rorty's call to dispense with the opposition between loyalty and justice. The gist of the loyalty redescription of fair play is twofold. First, the redescription aligns with a conception of moral athlete identity as starting with thick narratives of closely-knit small groups (e.g. teams) and expanding outwards to embrace the thinner narratives and abstract principles of larger groups (e.g. 'the Olympic movement'). Thus, moral progress occurs when an athlete's loyalty towards her team is balanced by her loyalty to competitors or to the sport as a whole, to the extent that she plays fair even when she knows that 'foul play' will benefit the team. Second, the redescription places the burden on the shoulders of larger sporting communities, such as the 'Olympic movement', of recreating themselves as inviting and attracting more and more athletes' loyalty. The latter point has implications for anti-doping policy and rhetoric that I discuss towards the end of the paper. In brief, I argue that the loyalty redescription of fair play substantiates a philosophical critique of surveillance-based policies such as the whereabouts system and the wider individualization of responsibility shaping current policy and rhetoric.

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Moral Communities in Anti-Doping Policy: A Response to Bowers and Paternoster

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Risk in Sports and Challenges for Sports Organizations

Risk in Sports and Challenges for Sports Organizations

Doping Sanctions in Sport: Knowledge and Perception of (Legal) Consequences of Doping—An Explorative Study in Austria

‘Fair Play’ as a Larger Loyalty: The Case of Anti-Doping

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