@article{ref1,
title="Coping With Football-Related Hooliganism: Healing Symptoms Versus Causes Prevention",
journal="Journal of applied social psychology",
year="2006",
author="Piotrowski, Patryk",
volume="36",
number="3",
pages="629-643",
abstract="The paper presents the increasing prevalence of sports-related violence in Poland, the distinctive characteristics of Polish football (soccer) hooliganism, and the psychosocial analysis of the phenomenon, based on a 3-year prophylactic program geared toward boys from high-risk groups. Football hooliganism may be described adequately in terms of coping with a sense of alienation. The article includes most of the important findings of the author's research pertaining to predisposing factors and mechanisms reducing the sense of alienation by one's affiliation with a group of football hooligans. The final part of the article touches on the consequences of the presented approach for the prevention of hooligan incidents.<p />",
language="",
issn="0021-9029",
doi="10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00022.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00022.x"
}