The Sports Doping Market: Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control

by Alessandro Donati and Letizia Paoli

​​This book examines sports doping from production and distribution, detection and punishment. Detailing the daily operations of the trade and its gray area as a semi-legal market, the authors cover important issues ranging from athletes most at risk to the role of organized crime in sports doping, and whether sports governing bodies are enabling the trade. Challenges for law enforcement and legislation, and efforts to control PED use...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461482402
• ISBN13: 9781461482406
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"