Tag: Jonathan Sly

In Sport and Crime: Towards a Critical Criminology of Sport, authors Peter Millward, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen and Jonathan Sly explore the connections between sport studies and criminology with the aim of opening up critical new frontiers in the study of sport and crime. In his review, Aurélien Daudi foregrounds a mainly successful attempt to develop a criminology of sport derived from Critical Theory, however not unobjectionable; our reviewer points to terminological weaknesses in more than one instance, and he finds the critical element surprisingly opaque.

Featuring a range of mega-event case studies and conceptual discussions, Katherine Dashper’s edited collection Sport, Gender and Mega-Events (Emerald) and considers how these highly mediatised global phenomena both reflect and help shape broader ideas about gender, sex and identity in and beyond sport. Sepandarmaz Mashreghi is our reviewer, and having some doubts as to the transforming powers of mega-events in terms of gender inequalities within sports, she still finds the collection to be a valuable contribution to the issue of sport mega-event and gender.