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Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

by Curtis Fogel and Andrea Quinlan

Published by: UBC Press

Imprint: UBC Press

14 tables

Digital download
9780774869157
Published: November 2023

Digital download
9780774869140
Published: November 2023

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This book will find a wide audience while also capturing the attention of scholars and students of sports ethics, governance, and policy, the sociology of sport, and sports law. Practitioners in the sports industry involved in coaching, event management, policy development, governance, and journalism will find it necessary reading, as will those working in community-based justice organizations and women’s health organizations.

1 Sport, Sexual Assault, and the Law: An Introduction

2 Athlete-Perpetrated Sexual Assault: Misogyny, White Male Privilege, and Entitlement in Competitive Men’s Sport

3 Group Sexual Assault: A Theatre for Performing Violent Masculinities

4 Sexually Violent Hazing: Power, Humiliation, and Group Dominance Bonding

5 Sexual Exploitation by Authority Figures: Institutional Tolerance and Betrayal within the Canadian Sport System

6 Breaking the Cycle of Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

Appendix A: Reports of Athlete-Perpetrated Sexual Assault

Appendix B: Reports of Athlete-Perpetrated Group Sexual Assault

Appendix C: Reports of Sexually Violent Hazing

Appendix D: Reports of Sexual Assaults Involving Authority Figures in Sport

Notes; References; Index

Curtis Fogel is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Sport Management at Brock University, and in 2016 was appointed a research fellow in Canadian Studies at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Controversies in Law and Sport and Game-Day Gangsters: Crime and Deviance in Canadian Football.

Andrea Quinlan is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. She is the author of The Technoscientific Witness of Rape: Contentious Histories of Law, Feminism, and Forensic Science and coeditor, with Elizabeth Quinlan, Curtis Fogel, and Gail Taylor, of Sexual Violence at Canadian Universities: Activism, Institutional Responses, and Strategies for Change.

"Through unobtrusive content analysis of court reports, legal case files, victim impact statements, newspaper accounts, and victim autobiographies, the authors identify a widespread "rape culture" in Canadian sport."
~J. R. Mitrano, CHOICE Connect