Sports and Violence Reflected in the Mirror of Modern Societies: Sport Ambiguities

Robène, Luc; Bodin, Dominique

doi:10.1080/09523367.2014.949686

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“…English sociologist Robins (1990) evaluated projects seeking to use sport as a method of crime prevention and concluded that there was no sound theoretical basis for the use of sporting activities to combat or prevent juvenile crime. This conclusion has gained credence from similar research (Farrington, 1990;Anderson, 2010;Robène & Bodin, 2014)). Expanding on his initial work, Robins stressed that despite greater investment in sport, there were no concomitant reductions in juvenile crime .…”

Section: Proof Of Prevention?mentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Some might be considered to have predispositions to violence that attracted them to sport (and maybe sport to them) in the first place (Dunning, 1986;Woods, 2011). Thus, it is possible that sports violence is the reflection of societal violence, but sport does not simply mirror societal trends, it has the capacity to generate its own violence both structurally and socially (Robène and Bodin, 2014). Sport can produce a violent climate; one that is also capable of harboring hostility between spectators and the phenomenon of "hooliganism" is another crucial facet to the sport-crime nexus.…”

Section: The Ends and The Meansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given that competitive sport is often conducive to-and bound up with-displays of physical force and ritualized violence Atkinson and Young, 2008;Fogel, 2013;Robène and Bodin, 2014), it is unsurprising that these behaviors are also present among those who watch sport. As Smith (1983) argued, if spectators perceive players' actions to be violent, they are more likely to engage in violent acts during and after games.…”

Section: Hooliganism: They Thought It Was All Overmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some academics have used the concept of tolerable deviance to explain deviance in sport and why it is often overlooked by legal officials (Atkinson & Young, 2008;Fogel, 2013). As Robène and Bodin (2014) contend, "When the prohibited or inadmissible is performed by a sporting 'hero' it becomes accepted, possible, justified, reified even culturally re-appropriated and reinterpreted " (p. 1958), and this can normalize violence. If so sport and sport stars carry the potential to teach people, especially children, a warped sense of reality if one accepts that many consider athletes as role models (Coakley and Pike, 2009).…”

Section: The Ends and The Meansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Expanding on his initial work, Robins stressed that despite greater investment in sport, there were no concomitant reductions in juvenile crime . More recently, sociologists Robène & Bodin (2014) challenged sports' "virtuous" reputation, arguing that it can "arouse impulse to 'win' and incites ever more athletes to engage in doping or cheating … " while also being a world in which " … the limits of decency, morals, ethics and shame are no longer recognized … producing climates of such hate and tension that it is sometimes necessary to stop a game in order to separate players or prevent spectators from killing each other" (p. 1957).…”

Section: Proof Of Prevention?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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2015

Oxford Handbooks Online: Criminology and Criminal Justice

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and KeywordsSport and crime possess the power to stir emotion and arouse debate; most people have opinions on both. Many believe a relationship exists between the two but as Francis and Braggins contend, the relationship between sport and crime is complex. For some, sport is a bastion of physical prowess and moral virtue; abiding by the rules and playing fair is considered a vehicle to encourage the wayward to veer from potential deviance or to rehabilitate offenders. A surfeit of programs designed to use sport as a method of crime control currently exist. However, sport itself contains many paradoxes and in some cases has become a realm for criminal behavior: corruption, bribery, doping, discrimination, violence, hooliganism, and a host of other undesirable behaviors are all evidenced in the delivery and practice of sport. Thus, the Hydra-headed character of sport makes the correlate between sport and crime a sometimes controversial milieu.

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Section: Proof Of Prevention?mentioning

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Section: The Ends and The Meansmentioning

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Thomas

2020

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Community‐owned clubs are profound socializing agents that offer children a prosocial environment that disarticulates some of football's most pernicious ideologies in favor of an environment that is developmental, empowering, and self‐affirming while facilitating self‐determination. The work highlights the evolution of community‐owned clubs from activist enclaves to virtuous, imperative environments that influence and transfer community‐bound knowledge. Children in the study articulated that the ethos found at these clubs has enhanced their self‐esteem and self‐efficacy and has positively changed their perceptions, behavior, and interactions with the vulnerable individuals within their community. In addition, the data reveals a new idealism in terms of football with self‐restraint and nominal consumption of club apparel preferred to traditional materialism.

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This chapter explores social enterprises as an alternative addition to traditional entrepreneurial ecosystems. It reviews the substantial social enterprise literature in order to identify the myriad of competing tensions that constrain the development and success of social entrepreneurial ecosystems in areas of significant poverty and economic deprivation. Following this, the findings of several contemporary and novel studies are discussed. These collectively evidence the ways in which social enterprises are overcoming the seemingly immutable constraints that they operate under. In particular, the Social Enterprise Places initiative has been highly effective in supporting the development of flourishing social entrepreneurial ecosystems in many locations in the UK. However, the growth of social enterprises, both in number and economic importance, presents further challenges that social enterprise owners and managers will have to contend with. Consequently, these organizations and their allied ecosystems require continued structural, financial and skills support.

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Sports and Violence Reflected in the Mirror of Modern Societies: Sport Ambiguities

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