Overview
- Enables a more complex understanding of the power dynamics that exist in sport and the ways they can be exploited
- Helps readers better understand some of the theories and models used to explain sexual abuse in sport, and suggests ways in which such abusive treatment could be avoided
- Provides a critical discussion of the "darker side of sport’ is often avoided in scholarly literature
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Bella’s story acts as a pedagogical resource in ways that stimulate ethical discussions and enhance knowledge of sexual abuse in sport, by assisting those involved to better understand their own ‘field’ and the dynamics of abuse within it, in order to develop effective abuse prevention strategies.
Reviews
“The book is a vivid account of Bella’s years of abuse by her athletic coach, presented with respect and deference through the self-described ‘non-conventional’ approach of collaborative autoethnography. … Owton’s book can serve as an excellent model for other researchers to use.”(Katrina S Hacker and Margaux Genoff Garzon, Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 28 (3), August, 2018)
“This book is appropriate for undergraduate, graduate students, instructors, coaches, or anyone who is concerned about or wants a greater understanding of sexual abuse. It is an ideal supplemental text for a gender and psychology class, an introduction to psychology class, or a sport psychology class. … Through reading the book, students, practitioners, and professionals will reflect on a taboo issue that occurs in sport and hopefully consider ways to make sport safer for all.” (Jennifer J. Waldron, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (13), March, 2017)
“The book is a must read for anybody who has children participating in sport or indeed is immersed in a sporting context (i.e. coach, official). … this book awoke my consciousness to what sexual abuse and exploitation is as well as the associated grooming process.” (Jenny McMahon, Children & Society, Vol. 32 (2), 2018)
“This book is most directly useful for: social science academics; sport and/or sociology university students and therapists/potential therapist. Readers of Psychology & Sexuality will find the book to be very powerful; thought provoking and; vastly informative of the area of sexual abuse in sport, which is too commonly an unnoticed and under-represented subject in academia.” (Rebecca House, Psychology & Sexuality, Vol. 8 (4), 2017)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexual Abuse in Sport
Book Subtitle: A Qualitative Case Study
Authors: Helen Owton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46795-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46794-8Published: 05 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83587-7Published: 04 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46795-5Published: 22 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 128
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sexual Behavior, Sport Psychology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Crime and Society