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Deviance and social control in sport

The world of sport offers a deep--and often-overlooked--source for the study of deviance and its development. Deviance and Social Control in Sport challenges preconceived understandings regarding the relationship of deviance and sport and offers a conceptual framework for future work in a variety of sociological subfields. Drawing on their research in criminology and deviance in the discipline of sociology, Atkinson and Young provide a textured 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, understudied, or emerging. The text explains how forms of wanted and unwanted rule violation are produced by and mediated through social contexts in and around sport. As such, it explores - how deviance in sport is culturally constructed and ideologically framed in dynamic and interactive contexts; - the pathways certain athletes follow in becoming deviant and how they learn to associate those behaviors with their core identities; and - the social responses to deviant sporting behaviors, including the role of the media in disseminating images and messages about the behavior in question. By considering networks of social relationships and how they produce, define, and police rule violation and rule violators, Deviance and Social Control in Sport offers a nuanced and integrated explanation of sport deviance that accounts for the behaviors and practices of both individuals and teams.

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