How Can Governmental Positive Power Decrease Violence in Crime-Oriented Arenas?: the Case of English Football

This article will survey the dramatic change English football had undergone since the end of the last century. The authors will closely explore the implementation of the Taylor Report recommendations, to convince that which power and management techniques were used to decrease violence in public are...

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Main Author: Guy, Shlomit (Author)
Contributors: Muchtar, Ofer ; Ronʾel, Nati
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 62, Issue: 8, Pages: 2488-2504
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Social inclusion
English football
Discipline
Positive power
Positive criminology
Fußball
Diziplin
Positive Kriminologie
Inklusion
Sport
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Summary:This article will survey the dramatic change English football had undergone since the end of the last century. The authors will closely explore the implementation of the Taylor Report recommendations, to convince that which power and management techniques were used to decrease violence in public areas that were previously considered dangerous and crime-oriented. It will be argued that disciplinarian techniques were practiced, much like those described in Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, while this very power has proven to be positive and revitalizing. It will be therefore concluded that power is at its most effective when operated via techniques of discipline and social inclusion. These arguments correspond with the positive criminology theory whose popularity within the discipline is gradually increasing.
ISSN:1552-6933
DOI:10.1177/0306624X17694375