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Sports-based intervention and the problem of youth offending: a diverse enough tool for a diverse society?
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posted on 2015-06-16, 12:33 authored by Martyn ChamberlainThis paper discusses sports-based interventions (SBIs) and the problem of youth crime. It notes the positive role sport can play in changing to better the lives of young people. However, there is a lack of robust evidence to support the argument that participation in sporting activity can lead to a reduction in anti-social and offending behaviour. The paper discusses how through focusing on 'individual needs' and 'pathways to work', SBIs can become overly reductionist and mask broader structural class-, gender- and race-based inequalities that permeate through neoliberal nation-states and western criminal justice systems. It concludes that SBI advocates must seek to promote a less homogeneous idea of what an SBI is, as well as be more sensitive to the diverse needs of young people, particularly if they are to tackle the underlying structural inequalities that arguably create the social problem, that is youth crime in the first place.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Sport in SocietyVolume
16Issue
10Pages
1279 - 1292Citation
CHAMBERLAIN, J.M., 2013. Sports-based intervention and the problem of youth offending: a diverse enough tool for a diverse society? Sport in Society, 16 (10), pp. 1279 - 1292.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2013Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sport in Society on 24th July 2013, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17430437.2013.821251ISSN
1743-0437Publisher version
Language
- en