Crime, Deviance and Doping: Fallen Sports Stars, Autobiography and the Management of Stigma

by Majid Yar

Book Overview

Today's sports stars are hailed as heroes and marketed as celebrities, but can also suffer disgrace in the face of scandals about doping. Such a fall from grace turns heroes and role-models into villains, and sees them labelled them as 'cheats', 'liars', dopers' and even 'criminals'. How do fallen stars respond to such stigma? Majid Yar suggests that these sports stars use autobiographical story-telling as a form of public performance, in an attempt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137403748
• ISBN13: 9781137403742
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"