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Citation

Russell GW. Aggress. Violent Behav. 2004; 9(4): 353-378.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S1359-1789(03)00031-4

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article emphasizes the social-psychological literature in a selective review of what we know about sport riots. Although the evidence is sparse, the occurrence of riots in some sports may be increasing in the short run but appears less severe when viewed against the historical record. Sets of situational, environmental, social, and cognitive variables have been shown to include factors associated with spectator violence. An individual differences approach has characterized would-be rioters as angry, physically aggressive, impulsive, sensation seeking, and antisocial. Others in a crowd who intervene as peacemakers to quell a disturbance, while unheralded, represent a large unofficial force for crowd control. Other tactics commonly used to control sports crowds involve a variety of largely untested measures.

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