Agresivitatea și violenţa în sport

Abstract

In this article, we will refer to one of today’s „fashionable” topics due to the existence and even growth of the phenomenon called „aggression in sports”. Sport, like other areas of social life, is marked by this phenomenon. More than once I have heard of athletes being used as mercenaries in wars, settling accounts between criminal groups, filling their ranks with well-trained youths in gyms, even with performances in the fields in which they are trained. Sport is also marked by various types of violence, not only referring to the types of sports accompanied by violence, but also to the violence applied in relation to adult and sometimes, minors: harassment, including sexual, homophobia, discrimination etc. Some authors even talk about sport itself as a form of violence. Others - about a culture of violence in sports. The material has an interdisciplinary character, given that it represents an analysis of different sources from the fields of sociology, psychology and law. The methods used are mainly analysis and synthesis.