This book examines the use of sport and physical activity-based interventions as a means by which to address crime and anti-social behaviour.
This book examines the use of sport and physical activity-based interventions as a means by which to address crime and anti-social behaviour.
Covering a range of different sporting and physical activities across an array of social contexts involving both adult and youth populations, this book provides insight into the way in which sport and physical activity is interpreted by participants and practitioners, and how these interpretations relate to broader policy objectives within and across criminal justice systems. Featuring contributions co-written by academics and practitioners, the book presents fascinating case studies from around the world, including the use of yoga in prisons, e-cycling and social reintegration, and rehabilitation and resettlement through parkrun.
With criminal justice at the heart of on-going political and academic debates, this book is timely reading for any researcher, policy maker, practitioner or advanced student working in sport policy, sport development, criminology, social work or youth work.
Introduction: Sport and Criminal JusticeA Context for Co-Creation? PART
I SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTIONS
1. Health Promotion in the
England and Wales Justice System: Examining the Get Well, Stay Well Agreement
2.The Implementation and Delivery of parkrun across the Custodial Estate in
England and Wales
3. A Perspective on Social Reintegration through the Zwift
Online Training Platform: Lessons from a Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of The
Breakaway Sports Programme
4. Yoga in English and Welsh Prisons: Increasing
Accessibility through Digital Delivery?
5. Co-Creating a Sport-Based Youth
Development Programme for Incarcerated Youth: Partnership Mutuality in Action
6. The Lived Experience and Practice Reflections of Sport in Corrections.
PART II SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTIONS
7. Reintegration and
Resettlement through Education: Lessons from the In2Sport Programme
8.
Negotiating Sport and Sectarianism with Young People in Northern Ireland: A
Fresh Start Through Sport
9. Reflections on the Youth Justice Sport Fund:
Using Sport and Physical Activity as a Secondary Level Intervention with
Young People
10. Rugby Union, Positive Youth Development, and Criminal
Justice
11. Sport, Physical Activity, and Through-the-Gate Transition:
CrossFit, Community Engagement, and Resettlement. Conclusions: Co-creation,
Consensus, and Collective ActionNext Steps for Sport and Criminal Justice
Interventions
Haydn Morgan is Associate Professor in Sport Management at the University of Bath, UK. The majority of his published research has explored the connection between participation in sport and the enhancement of social inclusion within marginalised populations. He has published widely in academic journals on this topic and has also produced reports for industry clients, including The Commonwealth Games Federation, the Ministry of Justice, Comic Relief, and the Welsh Rugby Union. He is currently leading a youth justice inclusion project for the Duke of Edinburghs Award.
Andrew Parker is Honorary Professor in the Department of Health at the University of Bath, UK. Andrew's research interests focus on sport and disadvantaged youth, and he has undertaken research and evaluation studies of sport-based interventions both in community and custodial settings.
Rosie Meek is Chartered Psychologist and founding Head of the Law School at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. Rosie is best known for her work on the role and impact of sport and physical activity in prison settings. A Distinguished Fulbright Scholar, she has served on the Economic and Social Research Councils Grant Assessment Panel and the Youth Justice Boards Academic Liaison Panel. She is also Associate Editor of the journal Criminology & Criminal Justice and acts as an adviser to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
