The report by criminologist Susanne Strand and sports researcher Daniel Alsarve, at Örebro University, is about an examination of the risk factors of sport linked to violence in close relationships. But also about what sports associations and confederations can do to work constructively with values and culture, with the aim of both preventing violence and identifying risky behaviour.
The report on sports linked to specific men’s violence against women was one of the government’s annual assignments to Cif.
— Many people know that sport has a social benefit, but here you can get food for thought about how sport deals with aggression, fighting, what environments you create, what is allowed and not allowed to be said in a changing room and so on. Sports can be a risky environment. But sports can also do a lot to help, says Cif investigator Johan R Norberg Today’s news.
He says that the report should be seen as a kind of handbook, or eye opener.
— I think this has been a bit out of sight before. Many may think that we have knowledge about these issues in Sweden, but we do not.