Author: Steve Frosdick and Peter Marsh
ISBN No: 1 84392129 4
Review date: 04/05/2024
No of pages: 224
Publisher: Willan Publishing
Year of publication: 11/09/2012
Brief:
Football Hooliganism is suitable, publishers Willan say, for students taking courses around the subject and those having a professional interest in the subject , such as the police and those responsible for stadium safety and management. There is a foreword by Jim Chalmers, former police officer, and President of the Football Safety Officers' Association.
The authors point to three fallacies as themes which run through the book: the notion that football hooliganism is new; that it is a uniquely football problem; and that it is predominantly an English phenomenon.
The book looks at the history of football-related violence, the problems in defining the hooliganism, the data available on its extent, a review of the various theories about who hooligans are and why they behave as they do (alcohol is not as important as some claim, the authors say), and an analysis of policing and social policy in relation to tackling the hooliganism.
Imprint: Willan Publishing
ISBN: 1843921294
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Published: July 2005
Pages: 224pp
Publisher: Willan Publishing
About the authors
Steve Frosdick is Principal Lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth, where he teaches courses on safety and security at sports grounds. A former police officer, he has been Director of IWI Associates since 1996, and is a founder member of the Football Safety Officers’ Association. Peter Marsh is a director of the Social Issues Research Centre and MCM Research, and has studied football hooliganism since the 1970s. He was co-director of the Contemporary Violence Research Centre at the University of Oxford, and lectured in psychology at Oxford Brookes University.
