Game-day gangsters : crime and deviance in Canadian football / Curtis Fogel.

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Fogel, Curtis, 1983- [Author]

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9781927356548
9781927356555

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KE3792 .G364 2013

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Contents:

Discerning consent in Canadian sport -- A brotherhood of violence and mutilation -- Hazing in the aftermath of McGill's Mr. Broomstick -- Athletes in the era of performance-enhancing drugs -- Arenas of toleration in Canadian football -- Constrained consent on the gridiron -- Implications of this research == List of interviews.

Subject: In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already accepted by voluntarily participating in the sport? In the case of Canadian football, acts of on-field violence, hazing, and performance-enhancing drug use that would be considered criminal outside the context of sport are tolerated and even promoted by team and league administrators. The manner in wh.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Legal cases cited -- Discerning consent in Canadian sport -- A brotherhood of violence and mutilation -- Hazing in the aftermath of McGill's Mr. Broomstick -- Athletes in the era of performance-enhancing drugs -- Arenas of toleration in Canadian football -- Constrained consent on the gridiron -- Implications of this research == List of interviews.

In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already accepted by voluntarily participating in the sport? In the case of Canadian football, acts of on-field violence, hazing, and performance-enhancing drug use that would be considered criminal outside the context of sport are tolerated and even promoted by team and league administrators. The manner in wh.

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