ABSTRACT
Feminist campaigns to bring domestic abuse and violence to the fore over the past twenty years have been highly in¯uential in explaining the causes and consequences of domestic violence and abuse. Activists in the USA, Canada, Britain and the rest of the EU have effectively ensured that domestic violence and men's abuse of women is clearly identi®ed by both government and non-government agencies as socially and morally unacceptable (Goldner 1999; Skinner et al. 2005; van Wormer 2009), as a crime and recognised as a world-wide problem of women's human rights, public and physical health and community welfare (Walker 1999; Smith 2001; Sullivan, Bhuyan, Senturia, Shiu-Thornton and Ciske 2005a; Steinmetz and Tabenkin 2008). However domestic violence has not stopped. According to a British Home Of®ce Report (2006):1
· Police need to be more aware of the connection between sport and domestic abuse when they make their plans before major events such as World Cup and Championship matches.
