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Crime, Deviance and Doping: Fallen Sports Stars, Autobiography and the Management of Stigma

By Majid Yar (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2014
ISBN
978-1-349-48710-3, 978-1-137-40375-9
DOI
10.1057/9781137403759
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1371659 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
X, 106\107
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Criminology and Criminal Justicegeneral;Crime and Society;Sociologygeneral;Social Theory;Sociology of Sport and Leisu

Description

Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, it illuminates how fallen stars use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption.

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