ABSTRACT
This chapter will focus on benefits and limitations of academically accredited sports-based interventions, with a view to achieving the following: highlighting the challenges involved in delivering sport-based interventions (SBIs) to unique cohorts of prisoners; outlining how academically accredited SBIs can address the limited opportunities provided to these groups; offering a reflexive account of the development, delivery and evaluation of the “Stay Onside: Applied Football Studies” programme; and providing insights into lessons learned from the project, to help shape future research, theory, policy and practice concerning academically accredited SBIs.
