Nic Groombridge
CRIMINOLOGIST
University of South Wales, Wales
sports criminology, substance use, crime, prevention
Nic Groombridge BA, MA, MA, PhD, is a criminologist. His book Sports Criminology argues neither sports law nor the sociology of sport adequately tackles what happens in and around sport. But criminology has long ignored sport. In society criminology has sought to understand drugs but in sport has ‘taken its eye of the ball’ and ceded too much to the authorities of which a critical criminology would be critical. It is worth relativising some issues; for instance; might vitamins be seen as a gateway drug? A runner himself, he enjoys sport for itself, rather than a form of crime prevention or even ‘cause’ of crime.