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This qualitative report explores the social phenomena of football violence and its relation to the theories of aggression. Through a recent news article published on Deutsche Welle on a real football violence case related to German fans culture, thematic analysis revealed the following themes: violence development and witness behavior, consequence of violence, and reasons for the violence and authority’s behavior. The frustration-aggression hypothesis explains the motives that led to this mass football violence, but the revised version of frustration-aggression hypothesis does not explain the phenomena well. The findings capture the direction of the development of violence, the negative attitude of the public towards it, and the massive financial loss as a consequence. They further emphasize the importance of better stadium-level management, effective policing, better policing strategy and the authority’s structural reform in preventing future football-related violence. This report shows the advantages of qualitative research being a flexible way to discover patterns to explain how and why of a given social phenomena. Some findings correspond to previous similar research, some remain unanswered. Given the limitation of qualitative method being subjective, further research is needed to examine football violence from different angles.
Xuezhou Fan (Tue,) studied this question.