Football Hooliganism in Europe : Security and Civil Liberties in the Balance

Providing the first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, law makers and enforcers, and the media since the 1960s, this book examines the regulation and policing of the phenomenon, which has been influenced by security-related developments within post-bipolar Europe Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Early Academic Theories....Pages 15-21 A Non-Specific Legal Framework....Pages 22-26 Divergent Policing Styles....Pages 27-29 The Social Construction of ‘Otherness’....Pages 30-38 Front Matter....Pages 39-39 The Vibrancy of the Academic Community....Pages 42-56 Paradoxical Legal Specificity....Pages 57-71 Convergent Policing Styles....Pages 72-85 The General Acceptance of ‘Otherness’....Pages 86-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 The Academic Community Runs out of Steam....Pages 100-104 Legal Vagueness....Pages 105-116 The Decompartmentalization of Policing....Pages 117-124 The Consensus around Security....Pages 125-134 Back Matter....Pages 135-179 In this first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, law makers, law enforcers and the media since the 1960s, Anastassia Tsoukala seeks to unravel the political and security issues at play in the development of counter-hooliganism policies in Europe. Tsoukala analyses the impact that changes within the European security field have had on the regulation and policing of hooliganism, at both national and EU level, and reveals the interaction between all actors involved in controlling football hooliganism, as well as a gradual institutionalized erosion of civil liberties that has been legitimized as an ongoing feature of democratic legal systems through broad social consensus