The Promise of Violence

Adubato, Beth

doi:10.1177/0193723515594209

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“…One study looked at just one competition season's worth of data (Adubato, 2016 ). Three studies looking at international events either examined data across 1 year (Brimicombe & Cafe, 2012 ), 3 years (Kirby et al, 2014 ) or multiple years (Trendl et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most of the data extracted for analysis related to the day on which the sports event occurred, many specifying the hourly range from the time the game started: from within 3 h of the match starting (Trendl et al, 2021 —study assessed three‐hourly time periods up to 24 h post‐game starting), within 8 h of the game starting (Adubato, 2016 ) and within 12 h (Card & Dahl, 2011 ) to within 24 h of the match starting (Dickson et al, 2016 ; Williams et al, 2013 ). Other studies looked at daily and monthly rates of DV, seeing where those rates increased in relation to a major sports event (Boutilier et al, 2017 ; Brimicombe & Cafe, 2012 ; Kirby et al, 2014 ; Sachs & Chu, 2000 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is clear that very limited research has been done globally, with the focus predominantly on North America and the United Kingdom and only across football (including American football and soccer formats) and ice hockey. There has been some assumption that contact sport promotes aggression and violence, influencing the behaviour of fans beyond the match itself (Adubato, 2016; Kerr, 2005; White et al, 1992). However, the variety across the studies included in this review suggests that it is not limited to contact‐only sports which support studies regarding tennis and Formula 1 (Correia et al, 2018; Piquero et al, 2021).…”

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“…One of the studies located in the USA supported the argument that contact sports are associated with DV, with NFL and Ice Hockey shown to be associated with an increase in DV incidences (Adubato, 2016). White et al (1992) also suggested that 'an inherently violent' (p. 160) sport, NFL, would be associated with assaults on women.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…The assumption is being that those watching a televised sports event are more likely to be local to the teams in question. In the North American (the USA and Canada) studies using police data, the focus was often on one city [e.g., Philadelphia (Adubato, 2016), Los Angeles (Sachs & Chu, 2000) and Calgary (Boutilier et al, 2017) or multiple cities in which national leagues had teams located (Card & Dahl, 2011;Gantz et al, 2006;Holman et al, 2010)]. In comparison, studies based in England looking at national teams competing in international competitions focused on police data from a region (such as Lancashire or the West Midlands) (Kirby et al, 2014;Trendl et al, 2021) or across several regions (33 out of 39 police force regions in England) (Brimicombe & Cafe, 2012).…”

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Major sports events and domestic violence: A systematic review

Forsdike

O’Sullivan

Hooker

2022

Health Social Care Comm

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Increased rates of domestic violence (DV) have been associated with events such as public holidays, seasonal variations, disasters and economic crises. Sport is seen as gendered, exemplifying hegemonic masculinity and associated violence, with the link between sporting culture and violence against women well recognised. This paper reports on a systematic review of empirical research literature exploring the link between major sporting events and incidence of DV. We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus and Proquest Central databases from inception to December 2020 for quantitative studies examining major sports events and reports of DV using a pre–post comparison design. Study quality was assessed using the Kmet quality assessment tool. The review identified 1445 records following duplicate removal. Once screened and assessed for eligibility, 12 studies met the inclusion criteria. Results are presented qualitatively due to the heterogeneity across studies. Most studies originated in North America and the United Kingdom, used police records as their data source for measuring incidences of DV and few looked beyond the day of the sports event for recorded incidences of DV. Studies reviewed suggested that there is an association between certain major sports events and increased reporting of DV. However, studies' findings conflicted with regards to whether increases were associated with contact sports, the rivalry between competing teams, whether the events were emotionally salient and whether alcohol was a contributing factor. In conclusion, there is limited research globally. Heterogeneity and conflicting findings mean that more research is needed to understand the associations and inform community prevention/interventions to address DV.

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