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The War on Drugs in Sport: Moral Panics and Organizational Legitimacy

The War on Drugs in Sport: Moral Panics and Organizational Legitimacy

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society, Book 57

Sports GeneralCriminologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138812013
ISBN13: 9781138812017
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 8 2015
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This innovative and compelling work critically examines the relationship between sport, moral regulation and governance from a moral panic theoretical perspective. It argues that doping scandals create a crisis for sport governing bodies and other elite groups, leading to a moral panic, where the issues at stake for them are perceptions of their organizational legitimacy. McDermott also highlights the role of the media as a site where claims to legitimacy are made, and contested, contributing to the social construction of a moral panic.

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