The life-course offending trajectories of football hooligans
| Author | Alex R Piquero,Wesley G Jennings,David P Farrington |
| DOI | 10.1177/1477370813514154 |
| Published date | 01 January 2015 |
| Date | 01 January 2015 |
| Subject Matter | Research Note |
European Journal of Criminology
2015, Vol. 12(1) 113 –125
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The life-course offending
trajectories of football
hooligans
Alex R Piquero
University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Wesley G Jennings
University of South Florida, USA
David P Farrington
University of Cambridge, UK
Abstract
Football hooliganism has long occupied the social, media, and political landscapes of fans around
the world. In this study, we use data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a
longitudinal study of a large sample of males followed from childhood to late middle adulthood,
to examine the relationship between involvement in football hooliganism and both conviction
frequency and conviction trajectories. Results show that, although hooligans differ from non-
hooligans on several childhood and teenage risk factors, and that they also incur many more
convictions than their non-hooligan counterparts, these relationships do not hold after carefully
matching hooligans and non-hooligans on key risk factors. Football hooliganism, for the most part,
seems to be part of a constellation of antisocial behaviors that also includes criminal offending.
Keywords
Football, hooliganism, life-course, offending, trajectories, propensity scores
Introduction
Football hooliganism, or the crowd and fan disorderliness and behavior that surrounds
some football matches (Dunning, 2000: 142), is a popular topic in the European media
Corresponding author:
Alex R Piquero, University of Texas at Dallas, Program in Criminology, Richardson, TX 75080, USA.
Email: apiquero@utdallas.edu
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