Spoilsports: Understanding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation in SportSexual exploitation in sport is a problem that has beset both male and female athletes privately for decades but which has only recently emerged as a public issue. Spoilsports is the first comprehensive review of this issue, integrating pioneering academic research, theoretical perspectives, and practical guidelines for performers, coaches, administrators and policy-makers. Key topics include: * 'moral panic' * children's rights * masculinity and power * making and implementing policy * leadership in sport. Spoilsports draws extensively on the personal experiences of athletes and those involved in sport. Challenging and controversial, this book represents an important step towards tackling a difficult issue. It is essential reading for coaches, athletes, parents, policy-makers and all those with a personal or professional interest in sport |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Lifting the lid Childrens rights and moral panics | 10 |
a focus for concerns about sexual exploitation | 12 |
The origins of sexual exploitation as an issue in sport | 15 |
the emergence of a social problem | 19 |
Conclusions | 24 |
Mind your language Terms and definitions | 25 |
Coaches or authority figures? | 26 |
Wider applications of the contingency model | 146 |
Time out Managing research and managing myself | 148 |
Situating myself and others | 149 |
Managing myself | 152 |
Maintaining focus | 159 |
Conclusions | 160 |
Policy and prevention | 161 |
Hearsay and heresy Official responses | 163 |
Victims or survivors? | 27 |
Terms of abuse | 28 |
Paedophile or rapist? | 34 |
Grooming | 35 |
Consent and culpability | 38 |
Sexual exploitation and sexual violence | 40 |
Conclusions | 42 |
Knowing out limits Stakeholder research | 44 |
Origins of research on sexual exploitation in sport | 45 |
Research limitations | 49 |
Athletes | 53 |
Coaches and authority figures | 68 |
Patents carers and families | 70 |
Sport organisations | 74 |
Sport scientists | 76 |
The media | 77 |
Theory and understanding | 79 |
Masculinity Resisting the power and the glory | 81 |
Conceptions of power | 82 |
The heterosexual imperative | 85 |
Sexual exploitation and masculinity | 86 |
Female abusers | 89 |
Sexualised subworlds | 91 |
Sport as an exploitative family system | 93 |
Resisting control | 95 |
Conclusions | 99 |
Making sense Theorising and model making | 100 |
A Four Factor Model of sexual abuse | 103 |
A cycle of sexual offending | 105 |
The paedophile and the predator | 107 |
Risk factors for sexual exploitation in sport | 113 |
Stage of imminent achievement | 116 |
A temporal and developmental model of sexual exploitation | 118 |
Conclusions | 125 |
Contingent risks In search of narrative | 127 |
Criminal careers and coaching narratives | 128 |
Propositions about coaching careers and sexual exploitation in sport | 132 |
The contingent nature of sexual exploitation | 135 |
A contingency model of sexual exploitation in sport | 136 |
Accountability and responses of voluntary organisations | 164 |
Locating responsibility | 166 |
State responses | 170 |
Personal responses and whistleblowing | 172 |
Backlash or breakthrough? | 182 |
Conclusions | 185 |
Quality protects Making policy | 187 |
Frameworks for preventing sexual exploitation in sport | 189 |
Policy areas | 194 |
Conclusions | 201 |
Making policy work The art of the possible | 203 |
Recognition and referral | 205 |
Unproven and false allegations | 206 |
Intimate relationships and maintaining safe boundaries | 209 |
Touching | 210 |
Language | 211 |
An open club environment | 213 |
Registers of coaches | 214 |
Telephone helplines | 215 |
Monitoring and evaluation | 216 |
Education and training | 219 |
Advocacy and international initiatives | 220 |
Handling the media | 223 |
Conclusions and challenges | 225 |
Who cares wins Transforming leadership in sport | 227 |
Autonomy and the ethic of care | 230 |
Alternative leadership approaches | 232 |
Swedish golf | 233 |
Conclusions | 235 |
Hope or hopelessness? The values of sport | 236 |
Challenges to sport organisations | 237 |
Challenges to sports researchers | 239 |
Reflections and limitations | 240 |
The end of the beginning | 241 |
Useful web sites | 244 |
Practical resources | 249 |
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Other editions - View all
Spoilsports: Understanding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation in Sport Celia Brackenridge Limited preview - 2001 |
Spoilsports: Understanding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation in Sport Celia Brackenridge Limited preview - 2002 |
Spoilsports: Understanding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation in Sport Celia Brackenridge No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
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