Sports Violence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • Jeffrey H. Goldstein

   Pages 1-5

3. Roman Sports Violence

   • Allen Guttmann

   Pages 7-19

4. Unsporting Behavior: The Control of Football and Horse-Racing Crowds in England, 1875–1914

   • Wray Vamplew

   Pages 21-31

5. What Is Sports Violence? A Sociolegal Perspective

   • Michael D. Smith

   Pages 33-45

6. Athletic Aggression: A Moral Concern

   • Brenda Jo Bredemeier

   Pages 47-81

7. Perceived Injustice and Sports Violence

   • Melvin M. Mark, Fred B. Bryant, Darrin R. Lehman

   Pages 83-109

8. Aggressive Behavior of Soccer Players as Social Interaction

   • Amélie Mummendey, Hans Dieter Mummendey

   Pages 111-128

9. Social Bonding and Violence in Sport: A Theoretical-Empirical Analysis

   • Eric Dunning

   Pages 129-146

10. Sports, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution: Problems of Substance and Methodology

    • Günther Lüschen

    Pages 147-156

11. Psychological Issues in Sports Aggression

    • Gordon W. Russell

    Pages 157-181

12. Olympic Games Participation and Warfare

    • Robert Keefer, Jeffrey H. Goldstein, David Kasiarz

    Pages 183-193

13. Sports Violence and the Media

    • Jennings Bryant, Dolf Zillmann

    Pages 195-211

14. Back Matter

    Pages 213-226

    PDF

Books about sports, even those written by scholars, are frequently little more than hagiography. They extol the virtue of athletics for participant and spectator alike. Of greater rarity are those that look critically at the political, social, economic, and psychological underpinnings of contemporary sports. Violence in sports is among the relatively neglected issues of serious study. Sports Violence is perhaps the first collection of scholarly theory and research to examine in detail aggression within and surrounding sports. As such, it seeks to present the broadest possible range of interpretations and perspectives. The book is, therefore, both interdisciplinary and international in scope. Two chapters, by Guttmann and Vamplew, are concerned with historical analyses of sports violence. Definitions and perspectives on aggression in general, and sports-related aggression in particular, are the topics of Chapters 4 through 7 by Smith, Bredemeier, Mark, Bryant, and Lehman, and Mummendey and Mummendey. Here, a wide variety of social and psychological theories are brought to bear on the conceptualization of aggression on the playing field and in the stands. Dunning and Liischen, both sociologists of sport, examine the origins, structure, and functions of violence, of sports, and of their interconnections. Psychological interpreta­ tions and research are presented in chapters by Russell and Keefer, Goldstein, and Kasiarz, while Bryant and Zillmann examine the portrayal and effects of aggression in televised sports.

• ETA
• Sport
• aggression
• behavior
• conflict
• interaction
• research
• sports
• violence

• Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

  Jeffrey H. Goldstein

Policies and ethics