Understanding Match-Fixing in Sport

Bringing together leading match-fixing researchers from different fields, this book offers new theoretical and applied perspectives on this persistent problem in sport and wider society.

Bram Constandt is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ghent University, Belgium, and an affiliated scholar at the University of Minnesota's Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), USA. His research interests include integrity management in sport, integrity issues in sport, and sport history. He also teaches on these topics at Ghent University and in two international master programmes (MAiSI and MESGO). He is a board member of ICES, Center for Ethics in Sport, a member of different academic networks on sport integrity, and a partner in multiple Erasmus+ projects on match-fixing. Argyro Elisavet Manoli is Associate Professor at Loughborough University, UK. Her research focuses on marketing communications management and integrity in sport. Her work on sport integrity has been presented in the European Parliament, while she was also invited to deliver opening interventions in all European Commission Expert Group Meetings on Sport Integrity. She authored a policy report for the European Commission, commissioned by the European Union on corruption in sport in the European Union and has been awarded funding to conduct research on the area by funding bodies such as the British Academy, the Economic Social Research Council, and Erasmus+. She also leads the Loughborough University Collaboration of Sport Integrity and sits on the Editorial Board of a number of journals, while being a scientific track chair of the European Sport Management Association.

Introduction: Towards a Better Understanding of Match-Fixing, Part I: Theory, 1. Match-Fixing: A 'Normal' Part of Past Sport?, 2. Match-Fixing as a Social Institution between Pre-Modernity and Rationality, 3. Match-Fixing as a Commercial Solution: Match-Fix or Perish?, 4. Network Governance and Match-Fixing, 5. Understanding Match-Fixing from a Normalization Perspective, Part II: Practice, 6. The Macolin Convention and the Complexity of Sport Competition Manipulation, 7. A Legal Perspective on Match-Fixing, 8. Combining Criminology and Forensic Science to Detect Match-Fixing, 9. Crime Triangle Theory and Match-Fixing in Brazilian Football, 10. Psychological Perspectives on Match-Fixing in Sport: Existing Evidence and Policy Recommendations, 11. Assessing Public and Sports Policies to Tackle Match-Fixing, 12. Sport Integrity Australia and Match-Fixing: Exploring the Work of a National Agency, 13. A National Approach against Match-Fixing: The Case of Austria, Conclusion: The Present and Future Understanding of Match-Fixing: Exploring the Building Blocks of Match-Fixing Theory