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Brawler
High school champion wrestler Eddie MacIntyre does not mind his well-earned reputation as a loose cannon, but when he punches a referee he not only loses his chance at the state championships, he gets expelled from school--facing the strong possibility of joining his father in prison, he runs away and joins an illegal underground fighting ring, where he and a girl fighter named Khajee find themselves trapped in a violent world, run by bad men and gamblers.
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Child Maltreatment and Links with Experiences of Interpersonal Violence in Sport in a Sample of Canadian Adolescents
Purpose: This study aimed to explore links between child maltreatment (CM) and experiences of interpersonal violence (IV) in sport among adolescent sport participants. To our knowledge, no studies have yet considered this association. This is surprising given that the literature outside of sport clearly shows that CM is related to revictimization in adolescence and adulthood. Methods: The sample consists of 983 adolescents aged 14 to 18 years old participating in an organized sport. They completed a self-report survey in class at six Canadian schools assessing CM and IV in sport. Logistic regressions were performed to examine the associations between CM and IV in sport. Results: Child physical abuse, emotional abuse, and exposure to domestic violence were significantly associated with psychological violence and neglect in sport. Exposure to domestic violence was the only form of CM significantly associated with physical violence in sport. Child sexual abuse and neglect were significantly associated with sexual violence in sport, while child emotional abuse and exposure to domestic violence were significantly associated with peer violence in sport. Physical abuse was the only form of CM significantly associated with coach violence. Child physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic violence were positively associated with violence from parents in sport. Conclusions: Considering the associations between CM and IV in sport, further investigations are necessary on how to prevent revictimization. It also highlights the importance of athlete-centered and trauma-informed practices in sport. Implications and Contribution: This study was the first, to our knowledge, to show the relationship between CM and the experience of IV in organized sport, as reported by 983 Canadian adolescents. Our findings reveal different associations depending on the type of IV (physical, sexual, psychological, or neglect) and the perpetrators (peers, coaches, or parents).
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Ghost
\"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Intervention to Act against Sexual Violence in Sports
In recent years, an increasing number of cases of sexual violence (SV) in organized sports have received worldwide attention. To counteract the emergence of SV, various preventive measures have been developed and implemented. However, the effectiveness of these preventive measures has not been adequately tested. To close this gap, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a workshop intervention that was conducted within the context of organized sports in Germany. The one-day workshop intervention was conducted with 137 stakeholders in organized sports (coaches, athletes, board members, and parents). The intervention was evaluated by measuring the short-term (immediately before and after the workshop) and long-term effects (six months after the workshop). The analyses showed positive short-term (such as on attitudes toward SV and the intention to act against SV) and positive long-term effects (on knowledge about SV and a culture of prevention in the sports club and club behavior) of the workshop. The workshop was effective in the short term and the long term regarding the most relevant indicators (i.e., taking measures against SV). Therefore, it can be concluded that more workshops should be held in clubs in order to sensitize stakeholders and foster measures against SV in sports.
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Not Just a Soccer Game
On April 11, 1981, two neighboring Palestinian Arab towns
competed in a soccer match. Kafr Yassif had a predominantly
Christian population, and Julis was a predominantly Druze town.
When a fight broke out between fans, the violence quickly
escalated, leaving a teenager from each town dead. In the days that
followed the game, a group from Julis retaliated with attacks on
the residents of Kafr Yassif. Shihade experienced that soccer match
and the ensuing violence firsthand, leaving him plagued by
questions about why the Israeli authorities did not do more to stop
the violence and what led to the conflict between these two
neighboring Arab towns. Drawing on interviews, council archives,
and media reports, Shihade explores the incident and subsequent
attack on Kafr Yassif in the context of prevailing theories of
ethnic and communal conflict. He also discusses the policies of the
Israeli state toward its Arab citizens. Countering Orientalist
emphases on Arab and Islamic cultures as inherently unruly and
sectarian, Shihade challenges existing theories of communal
violence, highlighting the significance of colonialism's legacy,
modernity, and state structures. In addition, he breaks new ground
by documenting and analyzing the use of a traditional Arab conflict
resolution method, sulha, which has received little sustained
attention from scholars in the West. Shihade opens the toolkits of
anthropology, history, political science, and studies of ethnic and
communal conflict with the goals of exposing the impact of state
policies on minority groups and encouraging humane remedial
principles regarding states and society.
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Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport
Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport explores the psychological aspects of these two intrinsic elements of competitive sport.
This book critically examines the important issues associated with aggression and violence in sport, including:
a review of current theory in the psychology of aggression
exploration of how players become acclimatised to physical violence
discussion of the psychological benefits of sanctioned and unsanctioned sport violence
examination of the moral and ethical dimensions of the debate
the psychological basis of spectator aggression
case studies from a wide variety of sports.
This text is a must read for researchers and students within sport studies, psychology and sociology with an interest in human violence and aggressive behaviour.
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Youth hockey players brawl during AHL ‘Mites on Ice’ event
Investigations are underway after a fight involving eight-and-under hockey teams occurred during a “Mites on Ice” event at the home arena of the Hershey Bears, the top minor league affiliate of the NHL’s Washington Capitals.
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Sports Spectators
In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand.Sports Spectators,the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining; comprehensive and succint.
Guttmann first examines the history of sports spectators, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome. He then moves on to the Renaissance and traces three early sports -the tournament, archery, and early versions of football. The author then focuses on the emergenece of sports in post-Renaissance England, and discusses the curious spectacle of animal sports (bear- and bull-baiting and cockfighting), as well as the first appearance of combat sports such as sword fighting, stick fighting, and boxing. The book concludes its historical view by exploring contemporary baseball, football, rowing, tennis, and golf.
From his chronological narrative, Guttmann shifts to detailed analysis of the economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of sports spectatorship. Who were, and are, sports spectators? What is their gender and social class? Have they normally been participants as well as fans? What are the political functions of sports-watching? What are the social dynamics of spectatorship?
Guttmann provides fresh insights which will be useful to scholars and fascinating to everyone.Sports Spectatorsalso looks at the dramatic transformations radio and television have made, and offers an incisive critique of today's sports-related violence, including the increasingly frequent incidences of spectator hooliganism. How violent (or peaceful) have spectators traditionally been? Has spectator violence increased or decreased?
You needn't be a season ticket-holder to enjoySports Spectators.Allen Guttmann makes the history of fandom come alive for any reader interested in Western culture and what forms of entertainment reveal about us, as well as those concerned with the recent growth of spectator violence.
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A Unified GAN-Based Framework for Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection Using Optical Flow and RGB Cues
Video anomaly detection in unconstrained environments remains a fundamental challenge due to the scarcity of labeled anomalous data and the diversity of real-world scenarios. To address this, we propose a novel unsupervised framework that integrates RGB appearance and optical flow motion via a unified GAN-based architecture. The generator features a dual encoder and a GRU–attention temporal bottleneck, while the discriminator employs ConvLSTM layers and residual-enhanced MLPs to evaluate temporal coherence. To improve training stability and reconstruction quality, we introduce DASLoss—a composite loss that incorporates pixel, perceptual, temporal, and feature consistency terms. Experiments were conducted on three benchmark datasets. On XD-Violence, our model achieves an Average Precision (AP) of 80.5%, outperforming other unsupervised methods such as MGAFlow and Flashback. On Hockey Fight, it achieves an AUC of 0.92 and an F1-score of 0.85, demonstrating strong performance in detecting short-duration violent events. On UCSD Ped2, our model attains an AUC of 0.96, matching several state-of-the-art models despite using no supervision. These results confirm the effectiveness and generalizability of our approach in diverse anomaly detection settings.
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Sport Matters
1999 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Book Award
Sport Matters offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of modern sport from a sociological perspective. It covers such topics as the history of sport, the development of ideas of 'fair play', sport and the emotions, the professionalization of sport, race-relations and sport and sport and gender.Unique in its cross-cultural analysis, it uses examples from around the globe, including sports spectator violence in North America, the growth of international soccer and the role of sport in the European identity.
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