Sport Integrity, Betting and Crime

Mike McNamee is Professor of Ethics at KU Leuven, Belgium, and Professor of Applied Ethics at Swansea University, UK. He was a pioneer of the field of sports ethics, producing the first international collection of works in the field with Jim Parry (Ethics and Sport, 1998), establishing the first international journal in the field (Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2007), and authoring/editing numerous books and collections, including Routledge’s landmark Ethics and Sport book series. He founded the world’s first master’s degree in sport ethics and integrity programme (MAiSI) and is programme director of the international doctoral programme in sport ethics and integrity (DAiSI). He is or has been a member of many expert groups in sports ethics–related issues for the European Commission, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Office of Counter Terrorism, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). He has published over 200 scholarly works.Marcelo Moriconi is Researcher and Professor at the Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (Iscte), Portugal, and its Centre of International Studies (CEI-Iscte). He has a multidisciplinary career with a degree in journalism and communication, postgraduate studies in sociology, and a PhD in political science. He has researched and taught in academic institutions in Latin America and Europe. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Political Science Association. He has developed significant research on corruption, illegal markets, deviant behaviours, sport-betting-related crimes, and sport integrity and has coordinated or taken part in several international projects funded by the European Commission in these issues. He has published books, more than 15 book chapters, and 50+ articles in top-tier journals.

• 1. Sport and its pathologies in market society: Practices, institutions, and instrumentalisation. 2. 21st-century elite sport: From commercialization to gamblification. 3. Politicisation and criminalisation of match-fixing and the emergence of the integrity industry: The Macolin Convention and the zero-tolerance approach. 4. Inconsistencies in the conceptualisation of MSC: Sport integrity and sport betting integrity? 5. Disciplinary diversity and methodological rigour in sport integrity research. 6. The ecosystem of sport integrities: Mapping the intersecting conceptions and institutions. 7. The ethical ecology of sport competition manipulation: Moral psychology and regulations. 8. Independence, interests, and integrated sport integrity.