ABSTRACT
Introduction Chapter 2 offered an examination of the role of the authorities and the law in policing player violence and, in particular, the ‘drift’ over the course of the twentieth century to ‘criminalizing’ violent and injurious player behaviour. While a central feature in an increasingly panopticon-like1 world of sport where everyone is watching, judgement is constant, and news is immediate, the surveillance and sanction of athletes is not the only manifestation of how SRV is socially controlled. Forms of internal and external control, and formal and informal control, in sport go well beyond violating participants in the popular team sports (and certainly beyond professional ice hockey), as well as beyond the fi eld of play.
