Creating Deviance

Criminality and Elite Amateur Soccer in the Fiji Islands, 1975-2015

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22010535
AutoresK E James (0000-0002-6953-484X, University of the West of Scotland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen12
Número05
Páginas189-203
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAdvances in Applied Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2165-4328 • E-ISSN: 2165-4336
EditorialScientific Research Publishing, Inc. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4236/aasoci.2022.125017
OpenAlexW4285167069
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas28

This article considers criminality within elite amateur soccer in Fiji, covering the period 1975-2015. My discussion includes examples of on-field behaviour, which breaks codes of sportsmanship, such as the “throwing” of games; and off-field behaviour, such as robberies of jewelry stores committed by one prominent ex-player. This same ex-player also escapes police while warming up for a match on the pitch. We see the ex-player involved interpreting his own conduct, 25 - 30 years after the fact, in a way suggestive of existentialist or Foucauldian ethics. But his now assistant village headman status gives an implicit Kantian moral force to his arguments. Crucially, the article emphasizes the key distinction between village and town space and between village mores and town-based (criminal) laws

Amateur · Criminology · Elite · Mores · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sportsmanship · Throwing · Engineering · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts