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Book Review: Football Hooliganism

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AuthorJames Treadwell
DOI10.1177/026455050605300216
Date01 June 2006
Published date01 June 2006
Subject MatterArticles

186 Probation Journal 53(2)
development of harmful sexual behaviour tend to be assumed rather than known.
Some major puzzles are skimmed over, for instance why is it, if insecure attach-
ment is a primary predictor or precipitant of sexual offending and is represented
fairly equally in both boys and girls in infancy and early childhood, are boys far
more likely than girls to display sexually harmful behaviour in mid-childhood
before adolescent biological and cultural factors come into play?
However, I am nit picking; this excellent book is an essential purchase for teams
and workers involved in assessing and providing treatment for juvenile sexual
offenders. It provides a complement to the view that the validity of assessment and
treatment rests solely in consistent delivery of accredited CBT programmes and
reasserts the importance of the therapeutic relationship no matter what mode of
intervention is employed.
Colin Hawkes
Children’s Services Manager, NSPCC Young Abusers Project
Football Hooliganism
Steve Frosdick and Peter Marsh
Willan Publishing, 2005; pp 215; £18.99, pbk
ISBN 1–8439–2129–4
Frosdick and Marsh’s Football Hooliganism continues a
recent trend in criminal justice literature in summarizing
other academic contributions and offering an overview of
specific criminal subject matter. The authors seem well
placed to offer such a contribution – the former was previ-
ously a police officer and founder member of the Football
Safety Officers Association, the later is an eminent psychologist and contributor to
the notion that football violence may conform to a form of ‘ritualised aggression’
with a unique career structure (Marsh et al., 1978). However, the problem with
this book is the absence of real empirical evidence or insight into the motivations
of the football hooligan. Since Gary Armstrong’s seminal work (1998) based upon
research undertaken in the late 1980s and early 1990s, academics have largely
neglected football hooligans’ voices. There is no absence of theoretical work to
summarize,...

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