Playing Safe

Assessing the Risk of Sexual Abuse to Elite Child Athletes

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2379451
AutoresCelia Brackenridge (CHELTENHAM & GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, UK), Sandra Kirby (0000-0002-3049-1248, University of Winnipeg)
Año1997
Volumen32
Número4
Páginas407-418
Fecha de publicación1997-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269097032004005
OpenAlexW1989287179
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32
Referencias citadas11

Young athletes frequently suffer from being seen as athletes first and children second. This has consequences for their legal, civil and human rights as children and for the way in which sport organizations choose to intervene on their behalf to protect them from physical, psychological and sexual abuses. Sport careers peak at different ages depending on the sport: in some, children as young as 12 or 13 may reach the highest levels of competitive performance; in others, full maturity as an athlete may come late into adulthood or even middle age. Recognition of this variation has given rise to the concept of 'sport age', referring to sport-specific athlete development. This concept is of significance in helping to identify the developmental process in terms of athletic, rather than chronological, maturity. The risk of sexual abuse in sport, formerly ignored or denied, has now been documented in a number of studies, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Drawing on data from these studies and from the previous work on sport age and athletic maturation, this paper proposes a possible means of identifying and assessing relative risk of sexual abuse to elite young athletes in selected sports. The concept of a 'stage of imminent achievement' (SIA) is proposed as the period of peak vulnerability of young athletes to sexual abuse

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