What is it about?
Sport match-fixing has emerged as a complex global problem. This paper (a) examines how match-fixing is approached as a policy problem and (b) advances an analysis of the legal framework and regulatory system for sports betting as a causal source for “routinized” match-fixing.
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Why is it important?
Sport match-fixing is a global issue that threatens the integrity and very existence of sport. It is linked to both public policy issues and crime and requires a multidimensional approach for solutions.
Perspectives
Match-fixing in sport is a recurrent, global social problem involving a wide range of actors and, sporting disciplines and levels of competition. Within such an environment, it may matter little how strong the incentive structures and education programs are, when betting on human beings is both normatively and cognitively advanced as a value and institutionally permitted as a practice.
Professor Steve James Jackson
University of Otago
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This page is a summary of: The problems and causes of match-fixing: are legal sports betting regimes to blame?, Journal of Criminological Research Policy and Practice, March 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jcrpp-01-2018-0006.
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