This book explores the various ways in which participation in sport and physical activity might contribute to effective solutions within criminal justice systems.
Focusing on a range of different sporting and physical activities across an array of social contexts involving both adult and youth populations, the book offers insight into the way in which sport and physical activity is interpreted by participants and practitioners, and how these interpretations relate to broader policy objectives within and across justice systems. It focuses on a series of key issues, including how sport policy (national and international) has developed in recent years in this area; how and to what extent such policy developments have impacted organisations and interventions (both custodial and non-custodial) across sport and criminal justice systems and sectors; and how participant cohorts (such as disadvantaged and/or ‘at-risk’ young people) have experienced these changes.
With shifting debates around criminal justice and the need for policy and practical solutions to extend beyond tougher and longer sentencing, this book is important reading for students, researchers, and practitioners working in sport pedagogy, sport-for-development, sport and leisure management, sport coaching, physical education, criminology, youth work, youth studies, social work, and health studies.
Author(s): Haydn Morgan, Andrew Parker
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 227
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Introduction: Sport, Physical Activity, and Criminal Justice
PART I: Policy and Strategic Responses
1. The History and Development of Policy for Sport and Physical Activity in Youth and Adult Prisons
2. Adverse Childhood Experiences, Mentoring, and ‘At Risk’ Youth
3. Examining the Role of Partnership within Sport and Physical Activity Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation Projects
4. Sport and Crime Prevention in Canada: Examining Discourses of Risk, Responsibility, and Development through Sport
5. Using Child-Centred Approaches to Enhance the Evidence Base
Around Using Sport-Based Interventions to Reduce Youth Offending
PART II: Sport and Physical Activity Interventions in Custodial Settings
6. Co-Creating a Sport-Life Skills Programme for Incarcerated Youth
7. Using Sport-Based Interventions to Benefit the Mental Well-Being of People in Prison
8. Applying Kaupapa Māori Principles to Positive Youth Development: Insights from a New Zealand Youth Justice Facility
9. Sport and Physical Activity Inside (and Outside of) the Youth Secure Estate
10. The Perceived Impact of Sport and Physical Activity Programmes: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of Gym Orderlies in a UK Women’s Prison
PART III: Community-Based Sport and Physical Activity Interventions
11. The Acquisition of Capital through Sport and Physical Activity: Qualifications, Connections, and Self-Reliance
12. Cure De Jour: Exploring the Potential of Boxing as a Mechanism for Change among Vulnerable Groups
13. Midnight Football as a Site of Surveillance: Activities Observed by the Surrounding Institutions of Society
Conclusions: Sport, Physical Activity and Criminal Justice - Towards a New Research Agenda
Index
