ABSTRACT
The problem of violence and crime in sport and how to lessen or prevent them is perhaps one of the most difficult questions to answer within the area of sport, culture and society. Clashes of viewpoints are often about how we should relate to basic dilemmas and problems. In this way, the study of sport, violence and crime is no different from many other areas covered within this book. This chapter has kept the notion of violence as wide open as possible, in order to emphasize that the study of sport, violence and crime is not just limited to the phenomenon of crowd violence and player violence. Furthermore, cultural denials are neither wholly private nor officially organized by global sporting organizations, states or powerful individuals. The chapter also talks about the sexual violence in sport. Violence is one of many complex social issues that occur in different forms and in different places.
