Critical criminology has a long history of examining a legion of interpersonal violent acts committed in public and private contexts, crimes of the powerful, and a myriad of other harms typically exempt from the purview of orthodox criminologists. However, until recently, exhaustive scholarly work on the “dark side” of sport was conspicuously absent from the dynamic critical criminological project. This article chronicles key historical and contemporary contributions to the critical criminology of sport and suggests new directions in theory and research.
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