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A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management

Reforming Legal and Policing Responses to Risk

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Authors:
  1. Geoff Pearson

    1. School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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  2. Clifford Stott

    1. School of Psychology, University of Keele, Keele, UK

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  • Provides update on law, policing, fan culture and the football industry, drawing on data mostly from the UK and Europe
  • Discusses why hooliganism became an issue both politically and academically in the 1960s, 70s and 80s
  • Draws on Sociology, Psychology, Law and Criminology

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society (PSRCS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 1-22

  3. The Historical Development of Policing and the Law at Football Matches in the UK

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 23-50

  4. Legal Measures to Prevent Violence and Disorder at Football

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 51-95

  5. Policing a Football Match in the Early Twenty-First Century

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 97-129

  6. Risk Supporters? Understanding the Behavioural Norms of Football Fans

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 131-170

  7. Understanding the Psychology of Football Crowds

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 171-205

  8. Human Rights and Football Policing

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 207-234

  9. Understanding Risk in Football

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 235-269

  10. Dialogue-Based Approaches to Football Policing

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 271-302

  11. The New Agenda: Proposals for Reform in Law and Policing

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 303-331

  12. Conclusions

    • Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott
    Pages 333-350

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 351-367
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About this book

This book provides a holistic and interdisciplinary focus on the legal regulation and policing of football violence and disorder in Britain. Anchored in ground-breaking ethnographic and participant-action research, the book combines a crowd psychology and socio-legal approach to critically explore the contemporary challenges of managing football crowds. It sets out the processes by which football disorder occurs and the limitations of existing approaches to policing ‘football hooliganism’, in particular the dominant focus on controlling ‘risk supporters’, before setting out proposals for fundamental reforms to both law and policing. This book will be of value to academics, students, legal and policing practitioners, as well as policy-makers. The two authors are internationally known experts in the management and behaviour of football crowds and bring together for the first time over 30 years of research in this area from the disciplines of law and social psychology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Geoff Pearson

  • School of Psychology, University of Keele, Keele, UK

    Clifford Stott

About the authors

Geoff Pearson is Professor of Law at The University of Manchester and Academic Director of the N8 Policing Research Partnership, UK. He was awarded his PhD on ‘Legal Responses to Football Crowd Disorder’ in 1999 and has published extensively on football crowd behaviour, policing, and law, largely utilising ethnographic research. In this area he has worked extensively with police forces, governing bodies, stakeholders, and policy makers and has contributed to several influential official reports and inquiries on the subject of football crowd disorder and regulation.

Clifford Stott is Professor of Social Psychology at Keele University. He specialises in research on crowds, ‘riots’, ‘hooliganism’ and police use of force. He regularly works with police forces and governments internationally advising them on science led and dialogue-based approaches to public order management. In 2021 he was awarded an MBE for the contribution of his work to crowd psychology and in 2015 his work on policing crowds was acknowledged by the ESRC as one of its top 50 achievements in its 50-year history.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management

  • Book Subtitle: Reforming Legal and Policing Responses to Risk

  • Authors: Geoff Pearson, Clifford Stott

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16298-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16297-8Published: 13 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16300-5Published: 13 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16298-5Published: 12 December 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2517

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2525

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 367

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Policing, Violence and Crime, Crime Prevention, Psychosocial Studies, Human Rights, International Sports Law

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