Using sport to control deviance and violence among youths

The goal of this chapter is to encourage critical thinking about using sports as a means to control deviance and violence among young people. One way to accomplish this goal is to frame the topic in new and unexpected terms and to ask new questions about the topic. This helps us to break away from the dominant public discourse that usually occurs around the combined topic of youth, deviance, violence, and sports. I have found that many people in the United States have particular images in their minds when they think about using sports to control deviance and violence among youth.