Crime, Deviance and Doping: Fallen Sports Stars, Autobiography and the Management of Stigma

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Synopsis
Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, it illuminates how fallen stars use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption.
Copyright:
2014

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781137403766
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
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Copyrighted By:
Springer
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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