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Why do youth step out of sport and into court? Research Completed

Title

Why do youth step out of sport and into court?

Lead Author

Gloria Hine Clarke

Organisation(s)

University of Waikato, Department of Sport and Leisure

Publication Year

2012

Publisher

University of Waikato, Department of Sport and Leisure (with author's permission)

Contacts

E-mail:

Gloria Clarke: ghc3@waikato.ac.nz

Abstract

Motivated by my son’s incarceration months after he stopped playing sport, this thesis attempts to answer the questions that plagued me as I began dealing with lawyers, courts, and prison visits. If sport is all that it is supposed to be why is my son sitting in a prison cell? Had his fourteen years of playing sport been for nothing? Why hadn’t sport honoured its promise to protect my son from such a reality?

Keywords:

sport and crime, prison, incarceration, court, deviance

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Areas of Focus

Population Groups

Settings (location)

Clubs, Community, Other setting, Outdoors, Schools