Sport and Crime

by Ellis Cashmore, Kevin Dixon, Jamie Cleland

This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that's harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive. It challenges the conventional idea of sport as wholesome and beneficial, arguing that sport is often a trigger for crime, in both history and contemporary life.

The book explores how murder, violence, bribery, sexual assault, matchfixing, corporate corruption,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032306378
• ISBN13: 9781032306377
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages