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'Fencing them in' : the A-league, policing and the dilemma of public order

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posted on 2009-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ian WarrenIan Warren, Roy HayRoy Hay
The establishment of an elite national Australian soccer league has been accompanied by an unprecedented growth in popularity for the world game in several Australian cities. Such growth presents numerous challenges for public order maintenance, particularly in light of the widespread concern over the relationship between soccer, disasters in major closed venues and violence. After outlining the emerging issues, and the extant Australian research into the phenomena of policing and sports crowd disorder, this study offers a knowledge based approach to foster informed, reflective and collaborative policing in elite and sub-elite soccer venues. Rather than advocating a fundamental shift in the current public order policing paradigm, we suggest drawing on elements of best practice that are currently adopted in other Australian sporting and public order settings and appropriate overseas experience to facilitate a better understanding of the dynamics of Australian soccer fandom. The result should be the promotion of safer yet exciting events at which interactive crowd management based on harm minimization principles are key features.

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Journal

Soccer and society

Volume

10

Issue

1

Pagination

124 - 141

Publisher

Routledge

Location

London, England

ISSN

1466-0970

eISSN

1743-9590

Language

eng

Notes

This paper was also presented as a chapter in : 'Fencing them in' : the A-League, policing and the dilemma of public order, in The containment of soccer in Australia : fencing off the world game, Routledge, London, England, pp.124-150.

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C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2009, Taylor & Francis

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