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Sport offers prime sex offending opportunities yet has only recently been the subject of exploration and research. In this paper, the respective research approaches adopted by sport science and sex offender ‘science’ are compared. It is argued that both suffer from occupational blindness towards situational factors and that their joint obsession with individual behaviour modification—for performance enhancement in sport or reducing recidivism rates through treatment—may reduce the efficacy of risk-management interventions at the systemic level. Recent research and policy initiatives are used to illustrate how risk management responsibilities have been implemented in sport.
Celia Brackenridge (Thu,) studied this question.