caa a22 4500 475765427 CHVBK 20180406123604.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008753024786 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008753024786 Spectator Violence in Sports: A North American Perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Julian Roberts, Cynthia Benjamin] Spectator violence has long been associated with professional football in Europe. This article examines the issue of spectator violence from a North American perspective. We begin by noting that there is little systematic research into the scope of spectator disorder in North America. Perhaps for this reason there is little consensus about the true scale of the problem on this side of the Atlantic. It does seem clear at least that there is less spectator violence associated with professional sports in North America. After reviewing a number of explanations for this finding, we conclude that it has less to do with criminal justice policies or practices, than the social context surrounding the 'spectatorship' of sports in North America. Perhaps the most important explanation for the variance in crowd behaviour concerns the demographic profiles of sports spectators in European football and North American sports. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 comparative research nationallicence hooliganism nationallicence spectator violence nationallicence sports riots nationallicence sports violence nationallicence Roberts Julian Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Station A, P.O. Box 450, K1N 6N7, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada aut Benjamin Cynthia Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Macintosh-Corry Building-D431, 99 University Avenue, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 163-181 0928-1371 8:2<163 2000 8 10610 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008753024786 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008753024786 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roberts Julian Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Station A, P.O. Box 450, K1N 6N7, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Benjamin Cynthia Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Macintosh-Corry Building-D431, 99 University Avenue, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 163-181 0928-1371 8:2<163 2000 8 10610 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer