Sport and Social Inclusion: The Political Position vs. Practices

Sport, Physical Activity, and Young People Who Are Incarcerated: A Scoping Review

“…Kilgore and Mead, 2004;Mortimer, 2017), or the challenges in engaging young people in long-term change when the facility population is in constant flux (e.g. Kilgore and Mead, 2004;Verdot and Schut, 2012). These findings provide insight into the challenges faced by practitioners attempting to develop and implement recreational programming for young people who are incarcerated.…”

“…Meanwhile, studies examining institutional characteristics or policies primarily identified various barriers to the effective operation of sport programs, such as limited infrastructure and financial resources (e.g. Hilgenbrinck, 2003;Verdot and Schut, 2012), institutional security concerns (e.g. Kilgore and Mead, 2004;Mortimer, 2017), or the challenges in engaging young people in long-term change when the facility population is in constant flux (e.g.…”

Sport-based risk management: shaping motivated, responsible and self-governing citizen subjects

“…Several examples can be found, for instance: Midnight Basketball in the US (Hartmann & Depro, 2006), Positive Futures (Crabbe, 2007;Kelly, 2011Kelly, , 2012, the Sport Steward Program in the Netherlands (Spaaij, 2009), the Vencer programme in Brasil (Spaaij, 2013), DGI playground in Denmark (Agergaard, Michelsen La Cour & Treumer Gregersen, 2015) and drive-in sports in Sweden (Stenling, 2015). However, the notion of sport's potential as a means of responding to social problems has been seriously questioned in research (Coakley, 2011;Coalter 2015;Houlihan, Bloyce & Smith, 2009;Morgan, 2013;Verdot & Schut, 2012). Nonetheless, sport practices with social objectives have been highlighted by policy makers because they are assumed to promote active citizenship both in terms of integrating civil society actors such as voluntary sport clubs and social entrepreneurs in welfare provision and in terms of providing means of empowerment and pro-social development for individuals (Coakley, 2011;Coalter, 2007;Lawson, 2005).…”

Sports clubs as a medium for integrating people with disabilities

“…However, sports clubs' potential for social integration is also doubted, showing social closure practices like discrimination, prejudices and conflicts (Brown & Pappous, 2018;Patel, 2015). Besides the positive outcomes that may predominate, research also reveals negative outcomes that have to be taken into account (Tsai & Fung, 2009;McConkey, Dowling, Hassan, & Menke, 2013) and sports can only be effective in promoting social integration under specific conditions (Verdot & Schut, 2012). People with disabilities often practice sport in separated settings in the form of specific disability sports clubs or training groups and often face discrimination and exclusion from mainstream sport (Collins & Kay, 2014;Patel, 2015).…”