Exploring Sport and Leisure Disasters

First published in 2001. This book provides a socio-legal analysis of disasters by setting out two sport and leisure disasters (the 1989 Hillsborough and Marchioness disasters) and considering them in their broader legal/political/economic and policy contexts. It bases the analysis on in-depth examinations of the legal responses to these disasters.

Hazel J. Hartley

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Disasters - Conceptions and Concepts 2. Liberal Democracy, the State and the Rule of Law 3. Strength in Numbers? Mass Actions in Nervous Shock 4. Safe in Their Hands? Criminal Liability: Breaches of Statutory Duties and Corporate Reckless Manslaughter 5. Two Versions of an Inquisition: Inquests and Public Inquiries into Individual and Mass Deaths 6. Case Study One: The 1989 Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster 7. Case Study Two: The 1989 Marchioness Disaster 8. Critical Evaluation and Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index