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A New Agenda For Football Crowd ManagementUnderstanding the Psychology of Football Crowds

A New Agenda For Football Crowd Management: Understanding the Psychology of Football Crowds [In this chapter we set out the case for reconceptualising major incidents of football ‘hooliganism’ as crowd behaviour or collective action within crowds. We argue that this change in perspective is valuable because it enables a reanalysis of the same problems from a new psychological perspective. We therefore provide a summary of the nineteenth-century origins of classical crowd psychology and set out its limitations and problems as a tool for explaining collective violence. We then explore the new social identity approach to crowds and explain how and why this new form of social psychology provided a far better way of understanding riots, including some of the major disturbances involving England fans attending tournaments abroad between 1990 and 2000. We then explore how the knowledge and understanding generated by our research acted as a toolkit for helping to shape policing approaches at the European Championships in Portugal in 2004. We demonstrate how the policing of that tournament was measurably effective at managing crowds of football fans in such a way that disorder was almost completely avoided, regardless of whether fans who saw themselves, or were classified by police, as hooligans or ‘risk’ were present or not. We conclude by discussing how the crowd psychology, and lessons from its application at Euro2004, fed into the ENABLE project that we set out in more detail in later chapters, to underpin the proposals this book will set out for a new agenda for understanding, and managing, ‘risk’ in football policing operations.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Agenda For Football Crowd ManagementUnderstanding the Psychology of Football Crowds

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society Book Series
Pearson, Geoff; Stott, Clifford
Springer Journals — Dec 13, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2022
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978-3-031-16297-8
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171 –205
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10.1007/978-3-031-16298-5_6
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[In this chapter we set out the case for reconceptualising major incidents of football ‘hooliganism’ as crowd behaviour or collective action within crowds. We argue that this change in perspective is valuable because it enables a reanalysis of the same problems from a new psychological perspective. We therefore provide a summary of the nineteenth-century origins of classical crowd psychology and set out its limitations and problems as a tool for explaining collective violence. We then explore the new social identity approach to crowds and explain how and why this new form of social psychology provided a far better way of understanding riots, including some of the major disturbances involving England fans attending tournaments abroad between 1990 and 2000. We then explore how the knowledge and understanding generated by our research acted as a toolkit for helping to shape policing approaches at the European Championships in Portugal in 2004. We demonstrate how the policing of that tournament was measurably effective at managing crowds of football fans in such a way that disorder was almost completely avoided, regardless of whether fans who saw themselves, or were classified by police, as hooligans or ‘risk’ were present or not. We conclude by discussing how the crowd psychology, and lessons from its application at Euro2004, fed into the ENABLE project that we set out in more detail in later chapters, to underpin the proposals this book will set out for a new agenda for understanding, and managing, ‘risk’ in football policing operations.]

Published: Dec 13, 2022

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