We are seeking chapters for an edited book entitled Criminology, Leisure, and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (as part of the Routledge Advances in Leisure Studies Series). The book brings together criminology with socio-cultural analysis of leisure and sport to provide an interdisciplinary collection of work. Crime, deviance, and sport have an established history within the sociology of sport. However, criminology, leisure, and sport are yet to be explored fully in terms of co-creating methodologies, theories, concepts, and new knowledge.
Chapters can be based on empirical research findings, theoretical and/or conceptual contributions and accounts from practitioners. Specifically, we encourage submissions from ECRs. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
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- Athletes, coaches, managers, governing bodies engaging in criminal activities: responses, regulations, repercussions.
- Leisure and green/environmental crime: activism and resistance.
- Crime and criminal activity through leisure practices, cultures and spaces (entertainment industry, gambling, night-time economy, festivals, transgressive leisure).
- Sport participation and its impacts on offenders’ everyday lives: pleasures, risks, and challenges.
- Sport/leisure and hate crime: Race. Religion. Disability. Sexual orientation. Transgender identity.
- The gendering of criminology, leisure and sport interdisciplinarity.
Please consider submitting 300-word abstracts by Thursday 29th February 2024. It is anticipated that first-draft chapters (5,000-6,000 words) will be due Friday 30th August 2024.
For further information, please contact the editors:
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- Mark Berry, Lecturer Criminology, Bournemouth University mberry@bournemouth.ac.uk
- Carl Berry, Lecturer Criminology, UWE Bristol
- Jayne Caudwell, Associate Professor Sociology, Bournemouth University jcaudwell@bournemouth.ac.uk
