CC 409
Deviance & Crime in Sport
This course examines criminal and deviant behaviour and contemporary issues of justice
in the world of sport, highlighting the cultural contradictions that emerge in how sport
upholds dominant social structures, norms, and values, but also how harmful or deviant
acts that occur in sport may be ritually tolerated or embraced. This course is intended to
encourage students to think critically about sports, and its relation to deviance and
crime in contemporary society. Topics may include: doping, fighting, violence, gambling,
hazing, hooliganism, sexual abuse and harassment, gender discrimination, racism, fraud
and bribery, cheating, rioting, and social justice and protest movements in sport.
Prerequisites: CC100 and registration status: Year 4 Criminology.
Exclusions: CC411B.
This course examines criminal and deviant behaviour and contemporary issues of justice
in the world of sport, highlighting the cultural contradictions that emerge in how sport
upholds dominant social structures, norms, and values, but also how harmful or deviant
acts that occur in sport may be ritually tolerated or embraced. This course is intended to
encourage students to think critically about sports, and its relation to deviance and
crime in contemporary society. Topics may include: doping, fighting, violence, gambling,
hazing, hooliganism, sexual abuse and harassment, gender discrimination, racism, fraud
and bribery, cheating, rioting, and social justice and protest movements in sport.
Prerequisites: CC100 and registration status: Year 4 Criminology.
Exclusions: CC411B.
This course examines criminal and deviant behaviour and contemporary issues of justice
in the world of sport, highlighting the cultural contradictions that emerge in how sport
upholds dominant social structures, norms, and values, but also how harmful or deviant
acts that occur in sport may be ritually tolerated or embraced. This course is intended to
encourage students to think critically about sports, and its relation to deviance and
crime in contemporary society. Topics may include: doping, fighting, violence, gambling,
hazing, hooliganism, sexual abuse and harassment, gender discrimination, racism, fraud
and bribery, cheating, rioting, and social justice and protest movements in sport.
Prerequisites: CC100 and registration status: Year 4 Criminology.
Exclusions: CC411B.