Selected Sport Violence References

Bernthal, M. J. (2003). The effect of professional wrestling viewership on children. The Sport Journal, 6.

Bushman, B. J., & Wells, G. L. (1998). Trait aggressiveness and hockey penalties: Predicting hot tempers on the ice. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 969–974.

Coons, C. J., Howard-Hamilton, M., & Waryold, D. (1995). College sports and fan aggression: Implications for residence hall discipline. Journal of College Student Development, 36, 587-593.  

Drake, B., & Pandey, S. (1996). Do child abuse rates increase on those days on which professional sporting events are held? Journal of Family Violence, 11, 205-218.

DuRant, R. H., Champion, H., & Wolfson, M. (2006). The relationship between watching professional wrestling on television and engaging in date fighting among high school students. Pediatrics, 118, 265–272.

Edmans, A., Garcia, D., & Norli, D. (2007). Sports sentiment and stock returns. Journal of Finance, 62(4), 1967-1998/

Engelhardt, G. M. (1995). Fighting behavior and winning National Hockey League games: A paradox. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80, 416-418.

Folkesson, P., Nyberg, C., Archer, T., & Norlander, T. (2002). Soccer referees' experience of threat and aggression: Effects of age, experience, and life orientation on outcome of coping strategy. Aggressive Behavior, 28, 317–327.

Gee, C. J., & Leith, L. M. (2007). Aggressive behavior in professional ice hockey: A cross-cultural comparison of North American and European born NHL players. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 8, 567–583.

Giulianotti, R., Bonney, N., & Hepworth, M. (Eds.). (1994). Football, violence and social identity. London: Routledge.

Goldstein, J. H. (Ed.). (1983). Sports violence. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Guttmann, A. (1986). Sports spectators. New York: Columbia University Press.

Haley, A. J. (2001, Summer). British soccer superhooligans: Emergence and establishment. The Sport Journal, 4.

Jeavons, C. M., & Taylor, S. P. (1985). The control of alcohol-related aggression: Redirecting the inebriate’s attention to socially approved conduct. Aggressive Behavior, 11, 93-101.

Johnes, M. (2004). 'Heads in the sand': Football, politics and crowd disasters in twentieth-century Britain. Soccer and Society, 5, 134–151.

Jones, J. C. H., Ferguson, D. G., & Stewart, K. G. (1993). Blood sports and cherry pie: Some economics of violence in the National Hockey League. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 52, 63-78.

Jones, J. C. H., Stewart, K. G., & Sunderman, R. (1996). From the arena into the streets: Hockey violence, economic incentives and public policy. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 55, 231-243.

Jones, M. V., Bray, S. R., & Olivier, S. (2005). Game location and aggression in rugby league. Journal of Sports Sciences, 23, 387–393.

Kerr, J. H. (2005a). Rethinking aggression and violence in sport. London: Routledge.

Kerr, J. H. (2005b). Soccer hooligan violence: Making sense of older 'respectable' hooligans. Forensic Update, 81, 9–13.

Kerr, J. H. (1994). Understanding soccer hooliganism. Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Kerr, J. H., & de Kock, H. (2002). Aggression, violence, and the death of a Dutch soccer hooligan: A reversal theory explanation. Aggressive Behavior, 28, 1-10.

Mann, L., & Pearce, P. (1978). Social psychology of the sports spectator. In D. J. Glencross (Ed.), Psychology and sport (pp. 173-201). New York: McGraw-Hill.

McCaw, S. T., & Walker, J. D. (1999). Winning the Stanley Cup final series is related to incurring fewer penalties for violent behavior. Texas Medicine, 85, 66-69.

Miller, T. Q., Heath, L., & Molcan, J. R. (1991). Imitative violence in the real world: A reanalysis of homicide rates following championship prize fights. Aggressive Behavior, 17, 121-14.

Phillips, D. P. (1983). The impact of mass media violence on U.S. homicides. American Sociological Review, 48, 560-568.

Rees, D. I., & Schnepel, K. T. (2009). College football games and crime. Journal of Sports Economics, 10, 68–87.

Reifman, A. S., Larrick, R. P., & Fein, S. (1991). Temper and temperature on the diamond: The heat-aggression relationship in major league baseball. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 580-585.

Roversi, A. (1991). Football violence in Italy. International Review for Sociology of Sport, 26, 311-331.

Sachs, C. J., & Chu, L. D. (2000). The association between professional football games and domestic violence in Los Angeles county. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15, 1192-1201.

Semyonov, M., & Farbstein, M. (1989). Ecology of sports violence: The case of Israeli soccer. Sociology of Sport Journal, 6, 50-59.

Smith, M. D. (1983). Violence and sport. Toronto: Butterworths.

Stott, C., Hutchinson, P., & Drury, J. (2001). 'Hooligans' abroad?: Inter-group dynamics, social identity and participation in collective "disorder" at the 1998 World Cup Finals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 359–384.

Stott, C., & Pearson, G. ( 2007). Football "hooliganism," policing
and the war on the "English disease." London: Pennant Publishing.

Stott, C., & Reicher, S. (1998). Crowd action as intergroup process: Introducing the police perspective. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 509–529.

Tamborini, R., Skalski, P., Lachlan, K., Westerman, D., Davis, J., & Smith S. L. (2005). The raw nature of televised professional wrestling: Is the violence a cause for concern? Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 49, 202–220.

Taylor, S. P., & Gammon, C. B. (1976). Aggressive behavior of intoxicated subjects: The effect of third-party intervention. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 37, 917-930.

Taylor, S. P., Gammon, C. B., & Capasso, D. R. (1976). Aggression as a function of the interaction of alcohol and threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 938-941.

Tesler, B. S., & Alker, H. A. (1983). Football games: Victory, defeat, and spectators’ power preferences. Journal of Research in Personality, 17, 72-80.

Timmerman, T. (2007). "It was a thought pitch": Personal, situational, and target influences on hit-by-pitch events across time. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 876-884.

Van Limbergen, K., Colaers, C., & Walgrave, L. (1989). The societal and psycho-social background of football hooliganism. Current Psychology: Research and Reviews, 8, 4-14.

Wann, D. L., & Branscombe, N. R. (1990). Person perception when aggressive or nonaggressive sports are primed. Aggressive Behavior, 16, 27-32.

Wann, D. L., Peterson, R. R., Cothran, C., & Dykes, M. (in press). Sport fan aggression and anonymity: The importance of team identification. Social Behavior and Personality.

White, G. F. (1989). Media and violence: The case of professional championship games. Aggressive Behavior, 15, 423-433.

White, G. F., Katz, J., & Scarborough, K. E. (1992). The impact of professional football games on battering. Violence and Victims, 7, 157- 171.

Zani, B., & Kirchler, E. (1991). When violence overshadows the spirit of sporting competition: Italian football fans and their clubs. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 1, 5-21.

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