1st Edition

Sexual Abuse in Youth Sport A sociocultural analysis

By Michael J. Hartill Copyright 2017
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

Cases of sport-related child sexual abuse have received increasing news coverage in recent years. This book documents and evaluates this important issue through a critical investigation of the research and theory on sexual violence and child sex offending that has emerged over the past thirty years. Based on life-history interviews with male and female ‘survivors’ of child sexual abuse in... Read more

Introduction  1. Perspectives, Theories and Models of Sex Offending and Child Sexual Abuse  2. An Alternative Epistemology for Approaching Childhood Sexual Abuse  3. Research with ‘Survivors’ of Child Sexual Abuse in Sport  4. A Sketch of the Field  5. Narratives of Sexual Subjection in Sport  6. A Relational Account of Child Sexual Exploitation in Sport  Conclusion  References  Appendices

 

Biography

Michael J. Hartill is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport at Edge Hill University, UK. He has conducted research into child sexual exploitation in sport for over a decade, working on a number of significant national and international projects aimed at preventing abuse of children in sport