Violence in Sports Essays
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Violent occurrences in professional sports hardly comes to the attention of the justice system, though they are natural and very common. Professional sports such as hockey involve many violent behaviours; however much too often do these aggressive behaviours become violent acts with the deliberate intent to hurt the opponent. There has been debate whether professional athletes “should be charged with a crime for activity that occurs during a sport contest” or should the sports organizations just deal with it. (Sports...
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Deviance can be described as the diverging of what is seen as acceptable and the social standards set in our society it is seen in social and sexual behaviour. Deviance in sport can refer to purposely fouling an opponent to cause harm, the abuse of drugs and other forms of foul play like cheating. (BBC, 2019) Many sports may include aggression as part of the game sports like rugby and boxing require psychically touch and aggression however the difference to...
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Athletes should not be allowed to take part in professional sports due to actions in their personal life, as proven by evidence that there is a strong correlation between personal life and work life. People are pressurized to do better, and put more effort and time into their job. They could be doing that because they have a commanding boss or because they want to do it for their own good. Kary Mullis invented the Polymerase Chain Reaction. It was...
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