New Sociological Perspectives on Male Athletes' Violence Against Women: The Contribution of Investigative Journalism


Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette

Rich sociological empirical and theoretical work on male athletes violence against women is slowly growing, but most of the current data on this harm, in fact, comes from North American journalists. The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate how the woman abuse data in SportsWorld generated by journalists, especially the results of case studies, can make major contributions to the development of new sociological ways of knowing about male athletes online and offline abuse of women in intimate relationships and in other contexts.

This paper will be presented at the following session: