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Among the Thugs

Author : Bill Buford

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 39,48 MB

Release : 2013-04-24

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0804150516

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They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.



Understanding Football Hooliganism

Author : Ramón Spaaij

Publisher : Amsterdam University Press

Page : 484 pages

File Size : 49,50 MB

Release : 2006-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9056294458

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Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, policymakers and media as a disturbing social problem. This highly readable book provides the first systematic and empirically grounded comparison of football hooliganism in different national and local contexts. Focused around the six Western European football clubs on which the author did his research, the book shows how different clubs experience and understand football hooliganism in different ways. The development and effects of anti-hooligan policies are also assessed. The emphasis throughout is on the importance of context, social interaction and collective identity for understanding football hooliganism. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in football culture, hooliganism and collective violence.



Football Hooliganism, Fan Behaviour and Crime

Author : M. Hopkins

Publisher : Springer

Page : 439 pages

File Size : 21,96 MB

Release : 2014-05-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 113734797X

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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 behaviour from leading experts in the fields of criminology, law, sociology, psychology and cultural studies.



Understanding Soccer Hooliganism

Author : Kerr, John

Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 34,66 MB

Release : 1994-10-01

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0335192491

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English soccer hooliganism continues to be a serious problem both at home and abroad. Claims about the success of recent preventative measures taken by the English soccer and police authorities are premature. There are strong indications that soccer hooligans are still active and that they are adapting and changing their strategies and relocating their violent activities. Over recent years, much has been written about soccer hooliganism. In this book, 'Reversal Theory', an insightful and coherent new eclectic approach in psychology, is used to address soccer hooliganism in an innovative way. Few previous accounts can provide the sophisticated understanding of the motivation behind soccer hooligan violence that 'Reversal Theory' achieves. Equipped with a real understanding of the psychology behind violent soccer hooligan activities, those charged with dealing with the problem may adopt more effective counter measures. This book must be of interest to all those who are involved in dealing with or studying soccer hooliganism and other, similar forms of deviant behaviour, such as delinquency and vandalism.



The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)

Author : Eric Dunning

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 35,58 MB

Release : 2014-04-24

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1317679733

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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 problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s, when professional football first emerged in its modern form, charting the pre and inter-war periods and revealing that England’s World Cup triumph formed a watershed. The changing social composition of football crowds and the changing class structure of British society is discussed and the genesis of modern football hooliganism is explained by tracing it to the cultural conditions and circumstances which reproduce in young working-class males an interest in a publicly expressed aggressive masculine style.



Football Hooliganism

Author : Steve Frosdick

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 254 pages

File Size : 46,54 MB

Release : 2013-01-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 113403878X

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This book provides a highly readable introduction to the phenomenon of football hooliganism, ideal for students taking courses around this subject as well as those having a professional interest in the subject, such as the police and those responsible for stadium safety and management. For anybody else wanting to learn more about one of society's most intractable problems, this book is the place to start. Unlike other books on this subject it is not wedded to a single theoretical perspective but is concerned rather to provide a critical overview of football hooliganism, discussing the various approaches to the subject. Three fallacies provide themes which run through the book: the notion that football hooliganism is new; that it is a uniquely football problem; and that it is predominantly an English phenomenon. The book examines the history of football-related violence, the problems in defining the nature of football hooliganism, the data available on the extent of football hooliganism, provides a detailed review of the various theories about who hooligans are and why they behave as they do, and an analysis of policing and social policy in relation to tackling football hooliganism.



Fighting Fans

Author : Eric Dunning

Publisher :

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 35,68 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN :

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This volume considers soccer hooliganism in 14 countries and shows that, despite its tendencies to be associated with English culture, it has long been a social problem worldwide.



Football, Violence and Social Identity

Author : Richard Guilianotti

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 24,63 MB

Release : 2004-07-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1134859430

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Drawing on research from Britain, Europe, Argentina and the USA this volume examines the culture and loyalties of soccer players and crowds and their relationships to social order, disorder and violence. This informative and accessible book will be of interest to students of Sport Science and to all of those who love the game of soccer.



Scally

Author : Andy Nicholls

Publisher : Milo Books Ltd

Page : 359 pages

File Size : 27,92 MB

Release : 2004-06-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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Andy Nicholls is known to every football intelligence officer in Britain. For twenty-five years, he was one of the most active hooligans in the country, a leading figure among the violent followers of Everton FC Classified as a Category C thug, the worst kind, he amassed more than twenty arrests and has been deported from Belgium, Iceland and Sweden. His terrace fanzine was closed down by the authorities and he was banned from every ground in the UK. Revealing the truth behind the vicious knife attacks of the so-called County Road Cutters and the bitter Merseyside and Manchester rivalries that left scores injured, SCALLY caused a storm of controversy on first publication. It is widely acknowledged as the most revealing, most shocking book ever written about soccer gang culture.



March of the Hooligans

Author : Dougie Brimson

Publisher : Virgin Books Limited

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 44,80 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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Hooligan-turned-acclaimed author Dougie Brimson is the UK's most respected authority on soccer hooligan-ism. Now, in a book written specifically for an American audience, he tells the astonishing story of the rampant hooliganism among European soccer fans and how it could spread to the United States. Written in the raw, in-your-face style that has won considerable acclaim in Europe--the Daily Mail (London) said Brimson had written probably the best book ever on soccer violence--March of the Hooligans is a powerfully intimate look at what hooliganism has become and where it is headed.