"The Moral Equivalent of War", by William James, McClure's Magazine, August 1910, pp. 463-468. Beyond participation: the association betwee... [J Youth Adolesc. 2012] 2005 French riots. In the October and November 2005, a series of riots by mainly Arab, North African, and black French second-generation immigrants occurred in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities,[1][2] involving mainly the burning of cars and public buildings at night starting on 27 October 2005 in Clichy-sous-Bois.
Events spread to poor housing projects (the cités HLM) in various parts of France. A state of emergency was declared on 8 November 2005.
Sport stars arrested/prison. Violence. Sport,Unlawful Collusion and Political Corruption. Sport and organised crime. Match fixing and bribery. Put Down That Basketball! Sport Causes Crime! That is the argument of Sebastien Roche, a French political scientist.
In writing about the French riots last year, Roche has challenged the conventional wisdom that sports provide a good outlet for young men and perhaps keeps them out of trouble. To the contrary, Roche contends, “the practice of sport never reduces the number of crimes” and, furthermore, sports can even “give the opportunity to develop physical abilities useful for street crime: running, how to use impulsive behaviour, how to master the use of force.” Sports, crime and money: Athletes gone wrong. Financial havoc Apart from the tragic human toll, the negative publicity sparked by criminal allegations can wreak financial havoc.
Teams and leagues that employ them can immediately take a hit from lost ticket sales, advertisers and sponsors. Season-ticket-holders become disgusted. Sponsors run for cover, pulling ads and removing their images from marketing campaigns. Does the NFL have a crime problem? 8 July 2013 Last updated at 05:55 ET By Ben Carter BBC News To some the US's National Football League is synonymous with violence - legitimate violence where men weighing 300lbs (136kg) or more collide like crashing trains. But it's the violence off the field of play that's currently causing concern. Does the NFL have a crime problem? Last week Aaron Hernandez, 23, one of the NFL's elite players playing for one of the league's elite teams, the New England Patriots, was charged with murder.
Further charges may follow as police investigate whether he was involved in an unsolved double homicide, which took place last year. Brazil's football violence is a symptom of a collapsed justice system. An amateur football game in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Photograph: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images 30 June 2013 was a very good day for Brazilian football, and a very bad one. Brazil beat Spain 3-0 to win the Confederations Cup in Rio de Janeiro that day – while outside the 1km Fifa exclusion zone around the stadium, there were major clashes between protesters and the police. It has now also emerged that earlier that same day, at an amateur game in the distant northern state of Maranhao a referee stabbed a player to death on the field. He was then stoned to death and decapitated by the crowd.