Game-day gangsters crime and deviance in Canadian football

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781927356548 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1927356547 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781927356555 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1927356555 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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Publisher: Edmonton : AU Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 resarch.