Creating Deviance

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22010535
AutoresK E James (0000-0002-6953-484X, University of the West of Scotland, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume12
Fascículo05
Páginas189-203
Data de publicação2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAdvances in Applied Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2165-4328 • E-ISSN: 2165-4336
EditoraScientific Research Publishing, Inc. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4236/aasoci.2022.125017
OpenAlexW4285167069
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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