RT Article
T1 More Talent, More Leeway: Do Violence Against Women Arrests Really Hurt NFL Player Careers?
JF Violence against women
VO 29
IS 6/7
SP 1227
OP 1251
A1 Sailofsky, Daniel
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1843247070
AB This article examines whether arrests for an act of violence against women have a negative impact on National Football League (NFL) player careers and whether this impact has become more negative over time. Framed by criminological deterrence and conflict theories, I conduct a Bayesian multi-level negative binomial regression on a matched pairs sample of all 117 NFL players arrested for an act of violence against women between 2000 and 2019 (n = 234). Results show that the effect of an arrest on player careers is negligible, though it has become slightly more detrimental over time. Player value and performance are stronger predictors of post-arrest career trajectories, and average or better performance negates any detrimental impact of an arrest.
K1 Violence against women
K1 Deterrence
K1 NFL
K1 matched pairs
K1 conflict theory
DO 10.1177/10778012221092477