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- Examines doping supply chain and anti-doping law internationally
- Estimates the size and revenue of a national doping market
- Presents solutions for anti-doping policies and effective criminal justice outcomes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 in the worldwide sports community and among aspiring athletes, are also discussed in depth. The book's extensive research:• Estimates the demand for performance-enhancing products. • Traces the route from legal substances to illegal uses. • Identifies classes of suppliers and their methods of operation. • Tracks typical distribution systems from suppliers to users. • Examines the economics of the market: prices, profits, revenue. • Assesses the state of anti-doping law enforcement efforts.Starting with an unprecedented case study in Italy, the intensescrutiny from one pivotal country yields a potential template for research and policy on a world scale. Doping and Sport makes solid contributions to the work of researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with an interest in corruption, drug trafficking, and criminal networks; researchers in sports science and public health; and policymakers.
Reviews
“I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, which is extremely well organised and written. This book is a page-turner that would most certainly benefit those in the fields of criminology and the criminal justice system, with particular interest in corruption, drug trafficking, and criminal networks. It would also make essential reading for students of social sciences and sport sciences, athletes and gym owners. … The Sports Doping Market is truly a wonderful book that I have absolutely no reservations to recommend.” (Eileen Barker, Trends in Organized Crime, Vol. 18, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
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L.U. Leuven Faculty of Law, LINC, Leuven Institute of Criminology, Belgium, Belgium
Letizia Paoli
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Libera, Roma, Italy
Alessandro Donati
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sports Doping Market
Book Subtitle: Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control
Authors: Letizia Paoli, Alessandro Donati
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8241-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8240-6
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5538-1
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8241-3
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, International Sports Law