Date of Publication
Spring 4-26-2015
Document Type
Undergraduate Project
Professor's Name
Dr. Katharine Burakowski
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship existed between type of sports team and player convicted of a crime involving bodily harm off the playing field in the National Basketball League (NBA) and National Football League (NFL). This research was beneficial to the academic community because it further developed which professional sport participants were more engaged in violent acts out of the boundaries of their respective sports. This study allowed future researchers the opportunity to build off this study in hopes of building off of what is already known. This study was conducted with a cross sectional design because secondary data was collected at one time. The data collected from the sample did not show a positive relationship between type of sport and player being convicted of a crime involving bodily harm. Instead, the data collected showed that the most frequent arrest among the sampled group was drug and alcohol related.
Recommended Citation
Falck, Danielle M., "Criminal Minds: The Relationship between Sport and Off Field Violence" (2015). Sport Management Undergraduate. Paper 103.
https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/sport_undergrad/103
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