Low-income, urban adolescents are exposed to extremely high rates of witnessing and being victimized by community violence. Such violence exposure presents serious implications for youth’s development and psychological well-being. In a sample of 223 ninth-grade Latino adolescents, we examine: (1) what types of after-school activity participation increase or reduce adolescents’ risk for violence...

This article explores the cultural and structural forces that help influence the reproduction of sexist, misogynistic, and antifeminine attitudes among men in team sports. It first shows how the segregation of men into a homosocial environment limits their social contact with women and fosters an oppositional masculinity that influences the reproduction of orthodox views regarding women. Howeve...

While the term sports law has been used as a catch-all phrase to describe the increasing number of sports-related disputes being submitted to the courts for resolution, no substantive defmition of this phenomenon has been forthcoming. This paper suggests categorical parameters for the field through a descriptive case analysis of four types of sports disputes frequently litigated: traditional ne...

Abstract. The mediatization of several high-profile cases sexual abuse in sports has sensitized a larger public for the problem interpersonal violence against athletes. This article provides an overview what is already known on prevalence different forms sports, associated personal, organizational and cultural risk factors, psychopathological consequences violence. Throughout article, areas whe...

Among the major contemporary sociologists, Norbert Elias is unusual. He believes in the importance of historical perspective, shuns quantitative analysis, and has written extensively on sports. His magnum opus, Ueber den Prozess der Zivilisation, was originally published in 1939, generally ignored, republished in 1969, and translated into English in 1978 as The Civilizing Process. There are few...

Three experiments examined the impact of excessive violence in sport video games on aggression-related variables. Participants played either a nonviolent simulation-based sports video game (baseball or football) or a matched excessively violent sports video game. Participants then completed measures assessing aggressive cognitions (Experiment 1), aggressive affect and attitudes towards violence...

In the review of literature on violence in sports, sports is generally addressed with elements such as relationship between society and culture, factors affecting aggression, fan fanaticism, football violence. It was also seen that scale adaptation or development studies are carried out to determine perceptions, attitudes, tendencies for different education, age, gender sportsman groups. For th...

Open AccessMental health impacts of interpersonal violence in sportsCarla Edwards, Malte Christian Claussen, and Ralph Erich SchmidtCarla EdwardsDr. Carla MD, Michael G. DeGroote School Medicine, McMaster University, Waterloo Regional Campus, 10B Victoria Street South, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G [email protected]://orcid.org/0000-0002-2256-1963 Department Psychiatry Behavioral N...