1. Combat Sports as a Crime Reduction Tool
Abstract The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether combat sport has an impact on participants' criminality, and if so, whether combat sport is appropriate for use in offender treatment programs and crime reduction strategies. ... It seems that sport and recreation based crime reduction strategies have some theoretical and practical, if contested, justification. ... First, little is known about the effects of varying styles of combat sports, which vary in levels of aggression, interpersonal contact and machismo. ... It has shown that combat sport represents an appropriate activity to be...
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