caa a22 4500 475765443 CHVBK 20180406123604.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008773923878 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008773923878 Dunning Eric Centre for Research into Sport and Society, University College Dublin, University of Leicester, 14 Salisbury Road, LE1 7RQ, Leicester, UK aut Towards a Sociological Understanding of Football Hooliganism as a World Phenomenon [Elektronische Daten] [Eric Dunning] In this article a sociological diagnosis of football hooliganism as a world phenomenon is given. The author uses mainly English (newspaper) data about football violence (in and outside England) as an empirical base to explore how hooliganism can be theorised and understood. These data can usefully serve as a rough indication of the worldwide incidence of football hooliganism in the twentieth century. The author favours the figurational/process-sociological approach to football hooliganism which is historical and developmental. It also involves an exploration of the meanings of hooligan behaviour via an analysis of verbatim statements by the hooligans themselves, locates the football hooligans in the overall social structure, especially the class system, and examines the dynamics of the relationship between them and groups in the wider society. It is important, nevertheless, to stress that it is unlikely that the phenomenon of football hooliganism will be found always and everywhere to stem from identical social roots. As a basis for further, cross-national research, it is reasonable to hypothesise that the problem is fuelled and contoured by, among other things, what one might call the major 'fault-lines' of particular countries. Effective policies are urgently needed if the great social invention of football is to be protected from the serious threat posed by a combination of hooligan fans, complacent politicians and money-grabbing owners, managers and players. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 comparative research nationallicence hooliganism nationallicence preventive policies nationallicence sports riots nationallicence sports violence nationallicence European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 141-162 0928-1371 8:2<141 2000 8 10610 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008773923878 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008773923878 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dunning Eric Centre for Research into Sport and Society, University College Dublin, University of Leicester, 14 Salisbury Road, LE1 7RQ, Leicester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(2000-06-01), 141-162 0928-1371 8:2<141 2000 8 10610 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer