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Suggested Ways in Which Sport can Tackle Crime - Coggle Diagram
Suggested Ways in Which Sport can Tackle Crime
Funding Opportunities
Gov., Police, Lottery and organisations such as Comic Relief can fund local initiatives, either directly or through NGBs.
Sport England:
Sport improves health and well-being but can
boost individuals and their communites
.
Ways Forward
Outdoor adventure actives and 'adrenaline sports'.
Supportive findings over a number of years for +ve social/personal development
(Coalter et al., 2000)
.
Skateboarding - typically fosters young people to group together which can lead to a
replacement gang enviro.
People want to be social - can fulfil feelings of needing to be connected.
Involves being outdoors, mastering new skills and risk-taking.
Issues for Sports Intervention Programmes
Who delivers them? Youth workers? Coaches?
Who should they target and what should their aims be? Culture? Demographic?
Expert planning required
- acquire social capital, not just short-term sport participation.
At risk young people with issues, do no lend themselves to voluntarily participating in sporting activities.
Unrealistic expectations of sport's power.
Measuring effectively can be complicated.
Future Research
Test transferability from sport-based interventions to life settings.
Test against other non-sport interventions to compare data.
Longitudinal to show
causal
impact.
Understand the mechanisms of change
(Spruit et al., 2018)
.