Ellis Cashmore is the author of Making Sense of Sport, Celebrity Culture and The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson. Professor Cashmore has held positions in sociology at the universities of Hong Kong, Massachusetts and Tampa, USA.

Kevin Dixon is the author of Consuming Football in Late Modern Life. He is the co-author of Studying Football, Online Research Methods in Sports Studies, Screen Society and The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Teesside University, UK.

Jamie Cleland is the co-author of Online Research Methods in Sport Studies and author of A Sociology of Football in a Global Context and co-author of Screen Society. He has previously held positions at universities in the UK and is currently Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at the University of South Australia.

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This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that's harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive. It challenges the conventional idea of sport as wholesome and beneficial, arguing that sport is often a trigger for crime.

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Sport - A Catalyst for Crime. 2. Connections - Linking Sport and Wrongdoing. 3. Violence - Spillover and Containment. 4. Murder - Passion and Unlawful Killing. 5. Sex Offences - In Plain Sight. 6. Bribery - Betting, Fixing and Fraud. 7. Corporate Lawbreaking - Power of Persuasion. 8. Doping - A Self-Created Problem. 9. Crowds - Tragedies, Flashpoints and the Police. 10. Media - Notoriety and the Public Narrative. 11. Conclusion - AI, Cyber-Crime and Crimes of the Future.