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5 results foundAuthor: Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Title: Teenage Kicks: The Value of Sport in Tackling Youth Crime Summary: This report assesses the economic value of three sports projects aimed at tackling gang violence and youth crime in the UK. Each project is using sport to reach out to and engage young people at different stages along the criminal pathway. The results of the study clearly demonstrate that sport is not only a successful mechanism; it is also a cost-effective way to tackle the problem of youth crime and gang violence. Take the Boxing Academy in Tottenham, which is a sports-based alternative to ‘Pupil Referral Units’ (centres for children who are not able to attend a mainstream or special school). The ethos of the Academy is to instil discipline and respect through the experience of structured physical activity, shared goals and positive peer groups. It works in partnership with other youth support and social welfare organisations in the area and there are a number of local mentors and role models in the coaching team. Our new report found that young people attending this project are more likely to achieve qualifications than their peers in Pupil Referral Units, and less likely to reoffend. What’s more, the Boxing Academy costs half as much to run as a traditional Pupil Referral Unit, despite achieving better results. Details: London: Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, 2011. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 22, 2011 at: http://www.laureus.com/files/Teenage%20Kicks_Report_FINAL.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.laureus.com/files/Teenage%20Kicks_Report_FINAL.pdf Shelf Number: 122430 Keywords: Delinquency PreventionJuvenile DelinquencyJuvenile DiversionSports (U.K.) |
Author: Alexander, Kate Title: The Experiences of Children Participating in Organised Sport in the UK Summary: This is the report of a major three year study of children and young people’s experiences of participating in organised sport in the UK. Conducted between 2007 and 2010, the study had two elements: • An online survey of students (aged 18–22) in higher and further education institutions across the UK exploring their experience and retrospective views of participating in organised sport as children (aged up to 16). The survey yielded 6,124 valid responses • In-depth telephone interviews with young people who identified themselves in the survey as having experienced some harm in sport and who were willing to be interviewed. Eighty nine interviews were conducted. Many children participate in sport at every level: as elite or club athletes; recreationally; as helpers – ball boys and girls, mascots; and as spectators (Sport England, 2005 ). The Football Association (FA) estimates four million children in England participate in football alone (The Football Association, 2010). The benefits to children of participating in sport are well known and publicised (Scottish Executive, 2003). These include enhancement of self-confidence and self-esteem, physical and mental health, and wellbeing (Scottish Executive, 2003). However, evidence also suggests that a significant minority of children participating in sport face negative and harmful experiences, ranging from minor misuse of power and bullying to sustained and systematic physical and sexual abuse of the most serious kind. Children’s negative experiences of sport was the main focus of this study. Examples of negative experiences highlighted in the literature include (Brackenridge, 2001, Fasting, 2005): • Authoritarian, abusive, aggressive and threatening behaviour • Disrespectful treatment, including criticism and mockery of the child’s performance, and victimisation • Over-training and excessive physical demands • Ill treatment by over-aggressive and undermining parents • Bullying • Physical abuse • Emotional abuse • Grooming by paedophiles • Serious and sustained sexual assault and abuse. This study set out to investigate these issues and develop a greater understanding of the potential negative treatment of children in organised sport in the UK. Funded by NSPCC, the study was important because: • While the family is the setting for most maltreatment and abuse of children by adults, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and, in particular, sexual abuse, are all experienced outside the family in other settings (Radford et al., 2011 ). Sport is an activity engaged in by many children in the UK (Sport England, 2003b, Sports Council Wales, 2006, Sports Scotland, 2008a) and therefore, it is important to examine negative and harmful experiences of children in this setting • Prior research has been conducted on aspects of child maltreatment in sport in the UK (Brackenridge, 2001, Myers and Barret, 2002, Gervis and Dunn, 2004, Hartill, 2005, Stirling, 2008). However much of it has tended to focus on particular forms of harm, or on particular sports, or on the experience of elite athletes. Research examining the range of negative experiences that may be faced by children across sports and at all levels of participation is limited • Research in the UK focusing on children’s and young people’s views about the negative experiences of sport is also limited. The study aims were to: • Address the gap in the literature about harm to children in specific settings, in this case sport • Investigate the range of maltreatment and negative experiences children might face in sport settings • Explore the negatives of participating in sport • Provide information to assist in the development of policy about child abuse in sport • Provide information to Sports Governing Bodies and others involved in the delivery of sport to children about the harm to children and young people in organised sport (club level and above), enabling them to more effectively target policy, resources, training and support. Details: Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh/NSPCC Centre for UK-wide Learning in Child Protection, 2011. 202p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 22, 2011 at: http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/research/findings/experiences_children_sport_main_report_wdf85014.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/research/findings/experiences_children_sport_main_report_wdf85014.pdf Shelf Number: 123087 Keywords: BullyingChild MaltreatmentSports (U.K.)Sports and Aggression |
Author: Meek, Rosie Title: The Role of Sport in Promoting Desistance from Crime: An Evaluation of the 2nd Chance Project Rugby and Football Academies at Portland Young Offender Institution Summary: More than half of all crime is committed by people who have previously been through the Criminal Justice System (Home Office, 2006) and reoffending rates within the young adult prisoner population are among the highest. Prison therefore presents a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through interventions and programming. Previous research has identified a clear need for specialist delivery and carefully planned methods of motivating offenders to make positive life changes, and sport presents a unique opportunity to engage with even the most challenging of young people caught up in a cycle of offending and imprisonment. This report summarises the evaluation findings of the 2nd Chance Project football and rugby academy, a two year initiative at HMP YOI Portland which uses sport as a way of engaging with young adult male prisoners in identifying and meeting resettlement needs and facilitating the transition from custody to community. The report is made up of eight key sections: Chapter 1 provides a contextual overview of the role of sport as a crime prevention initiative; Chapter 2 outlines the background to and delivery of the sports academies at Portland Young Offenders Institution; Chapter 3 introduces the evaluation process. Chapters 4-5 present the qualitative and quantitative research findings, and Chapter 6 is dedicated to a discussion of the key results. Chapter 7 explores the key recommendations generated by the research, and Chapter 8 summarises the suggested future research directions. The report concludes with a series of illustrative case studies presented in Chapter 9. Details: Southampton, UK: University of Southampton, 2012. 66p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 1, 2012 at: http://assets.sportanddev.org/downloads/42541_rugby_football_report_under10mb.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://assets.sportanddev.org/downloads/42541_rugby_football_report_under10mb.pdf Shelf Number: 126178 Keywords: Prisoner RehabilitationSports (U.K.)Young Adult Offenders |
Author: Meek, Rosie Title: Fit for Release: How Sports-Based Learning Can Help Prisoners Engage in Education, Gain Employment and Desist from Crime Summary: Sport has long been recognised as an effective incentive, or way of increasing motivation among those who might otherwise be reluctant to participate in other activities. Although most of the attention in this area focuses on the positive use of sport in a community context, a growing body of research has explored the role of sport in prison settings. This research shows that carefully planned and skilfully delivered sports-based activities can be an especially effective way to reduce violent incidences, improve relationships between staff and prisoners, identify resettlement needs, and ultimately create opportunities for individuals to desist from crime following their release from custody. Details: Middlesborough, UK: Teesside University, School of Social Sciences and Law; Mitcham, UK: Prisoners Education Trust, 2012. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 10, 2012 at: http://www.prisonerseducation.org.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/doc/Learning_Matters/PET_Fit_for_Release_Report_WebVersion.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.prisonerseducation.org.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/doc/Learning_Matters/PET_Fit_for_Release_Report_WebVersion.pdf Shelf Number: 126284 Keywords: Prison ProgramsPrisoner RehabilitationSports (U.K.) |
Author: Hillsborough Independent Panel Title: Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel Summary: On 15 April 1989 over 50,000 men, women and children travelled by train, coach and car to Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, to watch an FA Cup Semi-Final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. It was a sunny, warm, spring day and one of the high points of the English football season. Hillsborough was a neutral venue, like so many stadia of its time a mix of seated areas and modified standing terraces. As the match started, amid the roar of the crowd it became apparent that in the central area of the Leppings Lane terrace, already visibly overcrowded before kick-off, Liverpool fans were in considerable distress. In fact, the small area in which the crush occurred comprised two pens. Fans had entered down a tunnel under the West Stand into the central pens 3 and 4. Each pen was segregated by lateral fences and a high, overhanging fence between the terrace and the perimeter track around the pitch. There was a small locked gate at the front of each pen. The crush became unbearable and fans collapsed underfoot. To the front of pen 3 a safety barrier broke, creating a pile of people struggling for breath. Despite CCTV cameras transmitting images of distress in the crowd to the Ground Control Room and to the Police Control Box, and the presence of officers on duty on the perimeter track, it was a while before the seriousness of what was happening was realised and rescue attempts were made. As the match was stopped and fans were pulled from the terrace through the narrow gates onto the pitch, the enormity of the tragedy became evident. Fans tore down advertising hoardings and used them to carry the dead and dying the full length of the pitch to the stadium gymnasium. Ninety-six women, men and children died as a consequence of the crush, while hundreds more were injured and thousands traumatised. In the immediate aftermath there was a rush to judgement concerning the cause of the disaster and culpability. In a climate of allegation and counter-allegation, the Government appointed Lord Justice Taylor to lead a judicial inquiry. What followed, over an 11-year period, were various different modes and levels of scrutiny, including LJ Taylor’s Interim and Final Reports, civil litigation, criminal and disciplinary investigations, the inquests into the deaths of the victims, judicial reviews, a judicial scrutiny of new evidence conducted by Lord Justice Stuart-Smith, and the private prosecution of the two most senior police officers in command on the day.Despite this range of inquiry and investigation, many bereaved families and survivors considered that the true context, circumstances and aftermath of Hillsborough had not been adequately made public. They were also profoundly concerned that following unsubstantiated allegations made by senior police officers and politicians and reported widely in the press, it had become widely assumed that Liverpool fans’ behaviour had contributed to, if not caused, the disaster.In 2009, at the 20th anniversary of the disaster, Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, announced the Government’s intention to effectively waive the 30-year rule withholding public records to enable disclosure of all documents relating to the disaster.In July 2009 the Hillsborough Family Support Group, supported by a group of Merseyside MPs, presented to the Home Secretary a case for disclosure based on increasing public awareness of the circumstances of the disaster and the appropriateness of the investigations and inquiries that followed.The Home Secretary met with representatives of the Hillsborough Family Support Group and in January 2010 the Hillsborough Independent Panel, chaired by James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, was appointed. The remit of the Hillsborough Independent Panel as set out in its terms of reference was to:• oversee full public disclosure of relevant government and local information within the limited constraints set out in the Panel’s disclosure protocol• consult with the Hillsborough families to ensure that the views of those most affected by the tragedy are taken into account• manage the process of public disclosure, ensuring that it takes place initially to the Hillsborough families and other involved parties, in an agreed manner and within a reasonable timescale, before information is made more widely available• in line with established practice, work with the Keeper of Public Records in preparing options for establishing an archive of Hillsborough documentation, including a catalogue of all central Governmental and local public agency information and a commentary on any information withheld for the benefit of the families or on legal or other grounds• produce a report explaining the work of the panel. The panel’s report will also illustrate how the information disclosed adds to public understanding of the tragedy and its aftermath. The structure of the Panel’s Report The Hillsborough Independent Panel’s Report is in three parts. The first part provides an overview of ‘what was known’, what was already in the public domain, at the time of the Hillsborough Panel’s inaugural meeting in February 2010. The second part is a detailed account, in 12 substantial chapters, of what the disclosed documents and other material ‘adds to public understanding’ of the context, circumstances and aftermath of the disaster The third part provides the Panel’s review of options for establishing and maintaining an archive of the documents made available by over 80 contributing organisations in hard copy, many of which have been digitised and are now available online. Finally, the Report includes a set of appendices: the Panel’s full terms of reference; how the Panel has consulted with bereaved families and their representatives and how it responded to well-publicised events during its work; the process of disclosure; and the research methodology adopted in analysing the documents. Details: London: The Stationery Office, 2012. 389p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 26, 2012 at: http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/report/HIP_report.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/report/HIP_report.pdf Shelf Number: 126454 Keywords: Crowd ControlCrowd SecurityHillsborough DisasterSoccer Fields, AccidentsSports (U.K.)Stadiums |