Seksuell trakassering og andre krenkelser i ungdomsidretten: Forekomst og mønstre i utsatthet

Strandbu, Åse; Solstad, Gerd Marie; Stefansen, Kari; Frøyland, Lars Roar

doi:10.18261/ntu.4.1.2

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“…As pointed out by Wrang et al (2022), the issue is whether children and young people are regarded as athletes first and children second in the sporting context. Since David's book, research has acknowledged different forms of exploitation of child athletes, such as sexual abuse and the "trafficking" of young football players (Strandbu et al 2023;Yilmaz et al 2020). Research also points to the culture of silence that often seems to prevail in sporting contexts (Rulofs et al 2019;Barker-Ruchti and Varea 2023) that serves as a barrier to reporting and revealing abuse and harassment.…”

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Children’s Rights to and in Sport: A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Policies in the Scandinavian Countries

Agergaard,

Redelius,

Strandbu

2024

Social Sciences

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It has long been stated that children have the rights to protection from, e.g., abuse and to the provision of age-appropriate leisure, play, and recreational activities along with participation in all matters that concerns them. Yet, the full range of children’s rights to and in sport has not yet been explored in detail. To do so, it is relevant to turn to the Scandinavian countries, which are praised for promoting children’s rights and well-being, with organized sport forming part of the daily lives of many children and youths. In this paper, we examine the organizational policies in Scandinavian sport in order to develop foundational knowledge about how the range of children’s rights to and in sport may be supported. Comparing key policy documents of the major sports confederations in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, these analyses identify great variety in the following: 1. when and how children’s rights to and in sport have been made explicit in the three countries; 2. whether the emphasis is on protection and/or provision of sport to children and youths or their participation in shaping sporting activities; 3. the degree to and ways in which such rights are regulated. In sum, our findings reflect a disparity between organizational policies in the three countries, with a more liberal and individualistic approach to public policy in the Danish context, providing some explanation of the only recent development in and scattered enaction of regulations to support children’s rights to and in sports. Furthermore, we identify that political attention has mainly been drawn to the protection and provision of sports to children and youths, while their participation in shaping sport is a shared challenge for sport confederations in the Scandinavian countries and beyond.

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