Football Hooliganism in Europe

ANASTASSIA TSOUKALA is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sport Sciences at the University of Paris XI and Research Fellow at Paris V-Sorbonne University, France. Her research centres on the design and implementation of security policies in Europe with regard to football hooliganism, counterterrorism and immigration, and on the social construction of threat.

• Introduction PART I: CLEAR CONTOURS (1965-1985) Early Academic Theories A Non-Specific Legal Framework Divergent Policing Styles The Social Construction of 'Otherness' PART II: BLURRED BOUNDARIES (1985-1997) The Vibrancy of the Academic Community Paradoxical Legal Specificity Convergent Policing Styles The General Acceptance of 'Otherness' PART III: SPLINTERED CONTOURS (1997-2008) The Academic Community Runs out of Steam Legal Vagueness The Decompartmentalization of Policing The Consensus Around Security Notes Bibliography

'...the study is a compelling and fascinating one' - International Sports Law Journal '...Tsoukala has not merely provided a new slant on a single phenomenon; she has shown that the seemingly banal control machinery of European integration can and does infringe on hard-won rights.' - The Oxonian 'Tsoukala takes the reader on an exciting legal journey that shows how the subtle phenomenon of hooliganism has gone from being a domestic national problem of the relatively minor nature to be a great European debate where the issue of civil rights brought to a head in relation to countries' security'. - Aage Alderman, Department of Sport Sciences, Malmo University