Criminology, Leisure and Sport Interdisciplinary Perspectives

1. Introduction: Developing a Criminology of Leisure and Sport

Mark Berry, Carl Berry and Jayne Caudwell

Part One: Abuse and Harm

2. Situating Sexual Abuse in Sporting Communities and Cultures

Ian Mahoney, Kirsty Teague, Michelle Cunliffe and Belinda Winder

3. Relegating Football Dreams: Social Harm in the Elite Boys’ Football Youth Academy System

Nick Gibbs and Daniel Briggs

4. The Winter Olympic Villages: Between Activism and Environmental Crimes

Valerio della Sala

Part Two: Optimisation and Enhancement

5. Unprescribed Use of Anabolic Androgenic Steroids in Men: Criminals or Sporting and Muscle Enthusiasts?

Orlanda Harvey and Edwin van Teijlingen

6. Rethinking Weight Cutting in Combat Athletics: From Suffering to Success

Paul Fairbairn

7. The Dark Side of Mental Toughness: The Facade of Invulnerability

Tony Myers and Alex Powell

Part Three: Sport Participants and Criminality

8. Mixed Martial Arts, Organised Crime and The Night-Time Economy: MMA Fighters Who Work as Bouncers and Become Drug Traffickers

Mark Berry

9. Exploring Athlete Criminality

Lucy Sheppard-Marks

Part Four: Policing and Governance

10. Who Pays for the Policing of Sport? International Comparisons and the Problems with ‘User Pays’ Policing

Richard Hester

11. Football ‘Ultras’, Commodification and Criminalisation: Deviant Leisure and Celtic FC's Green Brigade

Conor Wilson

12. Beyond the 'Paradox' of Exclusion and Inclusion of Skateboarding in Japanese Urban Space: An Attempt to Grasp Skateboarding as a Pro-Social Activity

Yoshifusa Ichii

Part Five: Intervention, Desistance and Rehabilitation

13. Conducting Ethical and Empowering Research with Incarcerated Youth in Sport-Based Settings

Jenn Jacobs, Jeremy Charles and Zach Wahl-Alexander

14. Considering the Value of Combat-Sport Participation in Supporting Desistance for Electronic Monitoring Users: A Synergist for Reform or Criminogenic Catalyst?

Carl Berry

15. Wrestle for Humanity: An Open Dialogue about Transforming Lives Through the Sport of Wrestling

Saeed Esmaeli, Mark Berry and Carl Berry

Biography

Mark Berry is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences and Social Work at Bournemouth University, UK. He is an advocate of ethnographic research in ethically challenging settings with hard-to-reach groups, and he has international experience delivering participatory action research interventions with youth at-risk of serious and organised crime. He has worked in the Youth Offending Team and is a trustee for Wrestle for Humanity, a sports-based charity that supports refugees, people with disabilities and marginalised youth. 

Carl Berry is Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Carl’s research interests are electronic monitoring, probation and community penalties, surveillance and criminal offending. He has worked with offenders in the community through the probation service beside at-risk young people with the Avon and Somerset Police Constabulary. Carl is a trustee for Wrestle for Humanity and provides mentorship and coaching for marginalised members of the community. 

Jayne Caudwell is Associate Professor in Social Sciences, Gender and Sexualities in the Department of Social Sciences and Social Work at Bournemouth University, UK, and is Deputy Head of the Department of Social Sciences and Social Work. Her teaching and research interests are concerned with social justice and equality, critical socio-cultural analysis of leisure and sport cultures, feminist theory and activism, LGBTQ+ inclusion and theories of sexualities, and qualitative research methodologies.