Child abuse in sport : critical perspectives /

Elucidating deeper understanding of the problem of child abuse in sport and the various responses to it, both academic and policy-based, this collection uses a critical sociological lens and various distinct theoretical lenses to provide the conceptual tools to problematize the practice and administ...

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Other Authors: Hartill, Mike (Editor), Rulofs, Bettina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leeds : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Research in the sociology of sport ; v. 25.
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Table of Contents:
  • Child Abuse in sport: Critical perspectives
  • An introduction / Bettina Rulofs and Mike Hartill
  • Chapter 1. Child labour in sport: Sport, work and child exploitation / Peter Donnelly
  • Chapter 2. Conformity and normalisation of abuse in youth sport: A figurational approach / Claudia Pinheiro
  • Chapter 3. Advancing our understanding of child maltreatment and safeguarding: implications for sport and dance / Sophie Wensel, Gretchen Kerr, and Ellen MacPherson
  • Chapter 4. Sexual violations in youth sport: Gendered mechanisms of alienation? / Gerd Marie Solstad and Kari Stefansen
  • Chapter 5. "I hope that ends": Exploring emotional abuse in youth sports through the voices of active young swedish athletes / Inger Eliasson
  • Chapter 6. "I wanted to make a complaint, but no one told me what I had signed up to do": Navigating the abuse complaint reporting process / Natalie Barker-Ruchti and Laura G. Purdy
  • Chapter 7. Inquiries to child abuse in sport and their potentials for critical momentum and reconciliation / Bettina Rulofs
  • Chapter 8. "I'm a problem to some people": Survivor-advocacy in organised sport / Mike Hartill and Michelle Jones
  • Chapter 9. The origins, development, and current status of critical research on child abuse in sport / Mike Hartill and Bettina Rulofs.