Abstract
Although crowd violence has occurred in many sports and in countries all over the world, this chapter focuses upon football hooliganism in Britain. This is because crowd behaviour is a complex issue and, although violence in other sports and other countries may have similar features, the topic is too wide ranging to cover here. Nevertheless, football hooliganism provides a valuable insight into issues surrounding crowd violence and sport spectating.
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Further Reading
See Dunning, Murphy and Williams (cited above), Kerr (cited above) and a number of articles in volume 39 of Sociological Review (cited above).
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Sleap, M. (1998). Football Hooliganism. In: Social Issues in Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375734_9
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