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Title: Sports, Power, and Crime: Toward a Critical Criminology of Sport
Editors: Derek Silva & Liam Kennedy (King’s University College)
Chapter Due Date (for authors): November 1, 2020
Chapter Length (for authors): 7,000 to 7,500 words inclusive of references
Summary: The intersections of sport and crime have received much attention from scholars working predominantly in the areas of law and legal studies. For the most part, this body of research has documented cases of corruption, cheating, and illegal behavior that occurs away from the arena and in contexts that fall outside of the direct purview of sport. Rarely, however, have criminologists considered how crime, deviance, and punishment in the sporting world produce and reproduce social inequalities (for a notable exception see Groombridge 2017). In other words, there remains a lack of scholarship that investigates the myriad ways that ideas, representations, and messages about crime, violence, and punishment in sport mirror broader relations of power that exist outside of sport. Sports, Power, and Crime: Toward a Critical Criminology of Sport intervenes to provide a comprehensive overview of what the development of a critical criminology of sport might look like through empirically driven analyses that examine how both discourses and practices of crime and crime control operate within the field of sport.
Description of Sections & Volume Contributors
Foreword: Daniel Carcillo, Former National Hockey League (NHL) player and mental health advocate, Derek Silva, and Liam Kennedy
Section I: On the horizons of critical criminology and sport: This section will introduce the reader to the field of criminology of sport and outline some of the horizons on which the development of the field might be based moving forward.
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport (Derek Silva and Liam Kennedy)
- Chapter 2 Are sports and the environment incompatible? Critical criminological challenges, concerns, and considerations (Avi Brisman)
- Chapter 3 The case for a critical criminology and victimology of sports violence (Kevin Young)
Section II: On Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality: Contributions will focus on the nexus of race, class, gender, sexuality and inequalities in sport.
- Chapter 4 From Mr. Hockey to “the white way”: Masculinity, “colour-bland” racism, and the policing of blackness in the NHL (Stacey L. Lorenz and Braeden McKenzie)
- Chapter 5 Liars, cheaters, and gender frauds: Media discourses of trans women athlete’s criminality (Bridgette Desjardins)
- Chapter 6 Try for change: Rugby Union as a context for positive youth development and gendered expression of young people known to the youth justice system (Jamie Crowther, Deborah Jump, Hannah Smithson)
- Chapter 7 Rites of passage, violence, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: The belt-whipping ceremony (Dale Spencer)
Section III: On Head Trauma and Athletic Violence: This section will examine head trauma and discourses related to athletic violence in sport and sporting cultures.
- Chapter 8 “Is CTE a defense for murder?” Critical insights into violence, crime, and brain trauma in sports (Matt Ventresca and Kathryn Henne)
- Chapter 9 “Dang! That looked painful. Bad break for #Mystics”: Social reproduction and the structural violence of athletic injury (Nathan Kalman-Lamb)
- Chapter 10 More than a “bad apple”: Ongoing cycles of violence in athletes’ families (Deana Simonetto and Stacey Hannem)
Section IV: On Governance and Regulation, Security, and Surveillance: The focus of this section will be on practices of governance and regulation in sport and, in particular, in discourses and practices of surveillance that operate in the sporting world.
- Chapter 11 Surveillance and security of the Olympic Games: Globalization of inequality through sport (Vida Bajc)
- Chapter 12 Policing the young and the poor in Olympic neighbourhoods: the security legacy in Stratford, London (2012) (Jacqueline Kennelly)
- Chapter 13 Rags to riches and riches to rags: Critical criminology and the regulation of professional wrestling (Karen Corteen)
Section V: On Sport, Offending, and the Carceral: Contributions will focus on the penal and post-penal contexts where ideas and meanings about sport and athletic bodies are constructed.
- Chapter 14 Sport and the carceral: Social meanings of sport within and beyond the prison (Mark Norman)
- Chapter 15 Measuring and demonstrating the impact of prison-based sporting initiatives (Rosie Meek)
- Chapter 16 Looking beyond the athlete ‘offender’: Re-contextualising violence and harm in the National Hockey League (Victoria Silverwood)
Afterword: Nic Groombridge: In the afterword, critical criminologist Nic Groombridge will outline some of the future horizons of critical criminological work that takes sport seriously as an area worthy of scholarly investigation.
Key Readings on Critical Criminology and Sport
**please consider citing in your chapter for consistency throughout the volume**
Atkinson M and Young K (2008) Deviance and Social Control in Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Bajc, V (2016) Surveilling and Securing the Olympics: From Tokyo 1964 to London 2012 and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Brickman P (1977) Crime and punishment in sports and society. Journal of Social Issues 33(1): 140-164.
Boyle E (2014) Requiem for a “tough guy”: Representing hockey labor, violence and masculinity in Goon. Sociology of Sport Journal 31(3): 327-348.
Corteen K (2018) A critical criminology of professional wrestling and sports entertainment. The Popular Culture Studies Journal 6: 138-154.
Dunning E (1999) Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilization. London: Routledge.
Dunning E and Malcolm D (2003) Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology. London: Routledge.
Georgoulas S (2009) Critical Criminology of Leisure: Theory, Methodology and a Case Study. Berlin: Lit Verlag.
Giulianotti R (2005) Sport: A Critical Sociology. Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Polity.
Groombridge N (2017) Sports Criminology: A Critical Criminology of Sport and Games. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
Henne K and Ventresca M (2019) A criminal mind? A damaged brain? Narratives of criminality and culpability in the celebrated case of Aaron Hernandez. Crime, Media, Culture. Online first.
Jump D (2020) The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Kalman-Lamb N (2018) Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
Kennelly J (2016) Olympic Exclusions: Youth, Poverty, and Social Legacies. New York: Routledge.
Kennedy L and Silva D (2019) “Knuckle-dragging Thugs”: Civilizing processes and the biosocial revolution in the National Hockey League. Crime, Media, Culture, ahead of print.
Kennedy L and Silva D (2020) “Discipline that hurts”: Punitive logics and governance in sport. Punishment & Society. ahead of print.
Kim JY and Parlow MJ (2008) Off-court misbehavior: Sports leagues and private punishment. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 99(3): 573-598.
Lorenz SL (2017) Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey: Constructing a Canadian Hockey World, 1896-1907. New York: Routledge.
Lorenz SL and Osborne GB (2017) “Nothing more than the usual injury”: Debating hockey violence during the manslaughter trials of Allan Loney (1905) and Charles Masson (1907). Journal of Historical Sociology 30(4): 698-723.
Meek R (2012) Sport in Prison: Exploring the Role of Physical Activity in Correctional Settings. London: Routledge.
Norman M (2017) Sport in the underlife of a total institution: Social control and resistance in Canadian prisons. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 52(1): 598-614.
Silverwood V (2014) Ethnographic Observation and In-depth Interviews: Legitimate violence in ice hockey. London: SAGE Publications.
Simonetto D (2019) “I was with him before he was anything”: The identity talk of football wives. Studies in Symbolic Interaction 50: 181-196.
Spencer D (2011) Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts. New York: Routledge.
Stratos G (2010) Critical Criminology of Leisure. London: Lit Verlag.
Young K (2019) Sport, Violence and Society (2nd edition). London: Routledge.
**please consider citing in your chapter for consistency throughout the volume**
Atkinson M and Young K (2008) Deviance and Social Control in Sport. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Bajc, V (2016) Surveilling and Securing the Olympics: From Tokyo 1964 to London 2012 and Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Brickman P (1977) Crime and punishment in sports and society. Journal of Social Issues 33(1): 140-164.
Boyle E (2014) Requiem for a “tough guy”: Representing hockey labor, violence and masculinity in Goon. Sociology of Sport Journal 31(3): 327-348.
Corteen K (2018) A critical criminology of professional wrestling and sports entertainment. The Popular Culture Studies Journal 6: 138-154.
Dunning E (1999) Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilization. London: Routledge.
Dunning E and Malcolm D (2003) Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology. London: Routledge.
Georgoulas S (2009) Critical Criminology of Leisure: Theory, Methodology and a Case Study. Berlin: Lit Verlag.
Giulianotti R (2005) Sport: A Critical Sociology. Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Polity.
Groombridge N (2017) Sports Criminology: A Critical Criminology of Sport and Games. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
Henne K and Ventresca M (2019) A criminal mind? A damaged brain? Narratives of criminality and culpability in the celebrated case of Aaron Hernandez. Crime, Media, Culture. Online first.
Jump D (2020) The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Kalman-Lamb N (2018) Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport. Winnipeg: Fernwood.
Kennelly J (2016) Olympic Exclusions: Youth, Poverty, and Social Legacies. New York: Routledge.
Kennedy L and Silva D (2019) “Knuckle-dragging Thugs”: Civilizing processes and the biosocial revolution in the National Hockey League. Crime, Media, Culture, ahead of print.
Kennedy L and Silva D (2020) “Discipline that hurts”: Punitive logics and governance in sport. Punishment & Society. ahead of print.
Kim JY and Parlow MJ (2008) Off-court misbehavior: Sports leagues and private punishment. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 99(3): 573-598.
Lorenz SL (2017) Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey: Constructing a Canadian Hockey World, 1896-1907. New York: Routledge.
Lorenz SL and Osborne GB (2017) “Nothing more than the usual injury”: Debating hockey violence during the manslaughter trials of Allan Loney (1905) and Charles Masson (1907). Journal of Historical Sociology 30(4): 698-723.
Meek R (2012) Sport in Prison: Exploring the Role of Physical Activity in Correctional Settings. London: Routledge.
Norman M (2017) Sport in the underlife of a total institution: Social control and resistance in Canadian prisons. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 52(1): 598-614.
Silverwood V (2014) Ethnographic Observation and In-depth Interviews: Legitimate violence in ice hockey. London: SAGE Publications.
Simonetto D (2019) “I was with him before he was anything”: The identity talk of football wives. Studies in Symbolic Interaction 50: 181-196.
Spencer D (2011) Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment: Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts. New York: Routledge.
Stratos G (2010) Critical Criminology of Leisure. London: Lit Verlag.
Young K (2019) Sport, Violence and Society (2nd edition). London: Routledge.
