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Challenging popular representations of child trafficking in football
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 60-72, March 2018. Purpose Reports of human trafficking within the football industry have become a topic of academic, political and media concern. The movement of and trade in aspirant young (male) footballers from West Africa to Europe, and more recently to Asia, dominates these accounts. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides an overview of scholarship on this topic, with a specific focus on exploring how this form of human trafficking intersects with the broader debates over children ’s ri...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - March 15, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

In plain sight – examining the harms of professional wrestling as state-corporate crime
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 46-59, March 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore critically the potentially harmful business of professional wrestling in the USA as state-corporate crime. Design/methodology/approach This paper comprises desk-based research of secondary sources. The lack of official data on the harms experienced by professional wrestlers means that much of the data regarding this is derived from quantitative and qualitative accounts from internet sites dedicated to this issue. Findings A major finding is that with regard to the work-relate...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - March 15, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Sexual violence and collegiate athletics: US federal law, adjudication and the media spotlight
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 30-45, March 2018. Purpose In order to understand how collegiate athletics fits within the wider problem of sexual violence on college campuses, the purpose of this paper is to start with an examination of the overall scope of the issue of sexual violence in the USA and the larger culture that produces it. Next, the relevant laws and adjudication of sexual violence operant in American colleges are outlined. Finally, college athletics is placed into this bigger context by highlighting a number of particular cases to illustrate a broader underst...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - March 15, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Amateurism, scientific control, and crime: historical fluctuations in anti-doping discourses in sport
This study contextualizes the recent legalistic turn toward combating doping in sport, bringing greater understanding to the limitations of present anti-doping practices. (Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice)
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - March 15, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Sport exceptionalism and the Court of Arbitration for Sport
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 5-17, March 2018. Purpose The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), created by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1983, resolves disputes between athletes and national or international sports governing bodies. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the history and functions of CAS, with a particular focus on the ways in which athletes ’ rights are threatened by the IOC’s Code of Sports-Related Arbitration. Design/methodology/approach The author reviews relevant law literature and media sources. Findings The concept ...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - March 15, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Introduction
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 1-4, March 2018. (Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice)
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - March 15, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

The problems and causes of match-fixing: are legal sports betting regimes to blame?
This study extracts and synthesises (cross-national) materials from policies, media releases and scholarly works on the subject of match-fixing and sports betting. The analysis is framed by the contrasts between rational choice and sociolo gical institutionalist approaches. Findings Match-fixing is typically attributed to: criminal organisations and illegal sports betting; vulnerable individuals; and failure of governance on the part of sports organisations. Each cause holds assumptions of utility-maximising actors and it is argued that due consideration be given to the fundamental risks inherent in legal sports betting r...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - March 15, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

The belief in redeemability – version 2 (BiR-2) scale and its relation to desistance
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 300-312, December 2017. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between the belief in redeemability – Version 2 (BIR-2) Scale and desistance from crime. It also seeks to explore how patterns of responding on the BIR-2 with offenders compare to previous patterns of responding in the general public. Design/methodology/approach The authors report the results of a study of offenders using the beli ef in redeemability – Version 2 (BiR-2) scale. In total, 180 offenders under the supervision of the Community Corrections Ser...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - November 23, 2017 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

US public views toward biosocial risk factors for criminality: a brief report
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 294-299, December 2017. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present preliminary survey data measuring attitudes of members of the US public on the importance, existence, and potential legal use of biological risk factors for criminality. Design/methodology/approach Survey data were collected from an online sample of US public in conjunction with an experiment not included in this report. Findings Data suggest that the public generally agrees that there are certain biological characteristics that make one more likely to exhibit criminalit...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - November 23, 2017 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Compassion focussed working in secure forensic care
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 3, Issue 4, Page 287-293, December 2017. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe practices associated with compassion focussed therapy (CFT) in a secure forensic setting for men with a learning disability and personality disorder. The values of this model for both therapeutic work and the organisation of residential practices in a secure setting are considered. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a conceptual discussion of the use of CFT with an offender population. Findings The paper describes the use of CFT as a framework for working wi...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - November 23, 2017 Category: Criminology Source Type: research