Focusing on a number of contemporary research themes and placing them within the context of palpable changes that have occurred within football in recent years, this timely collection brings together essays about football, crime and fan ...

A secondary goal of the collection is to illustrate the prominence of mechanisms for peacemaking in medieval European society.

This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985.

This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the sporting world including football, cricket, horse racing and boxing.

This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the ...

In this collection, contributors from a range of disciplinary positions present the latest empirical research evidence and social theory to examine and debate fundamental issues about bigotry in Scottish football and society.

This collection of essays focuses on the diverse interactions between religious and commercial practices in U.S. history.