What Is a Girl Worth?: Gender-Based Violence and Accountability in SportsWorld
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2024-05-25
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Sociology of Sport Journal
Abstract
Despite having clear policies that address athlete misconduct, including gender-based violence, at the collegiate and professional levels, members of SportsWorld—athletes, coaches, and staff—are rarely, if ever, held accountable. And, even when they face a penalty, more than 80% are allowed to either remain on the team or transfer and continue playing. In this paper, we explore the impact of this lack of accountability, including the “positive” benefits to players that include the opportunity to play in national playoffs and secure lucrative contracts as well as the negative impacts on victims and communities, most disturbingly the impact of serial abusers like Larry Nassar whose unfettered access to athletes resulted in hundreds of victimized individuals.
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Manuscript has been published online as Ahead of Print:
Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Sociology of Sport Journal, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2023-0135. © Human Kinetics, Inc.
This article was originally published in Sociology of Sport Journal. The version of record and is available at: https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2023-0135
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1. The Gender-Based Violence in Sport Database is housed at the University of Delaware’s Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence. The database can be found at https://smithandhattery.com/gbv/. On that page, there is an option to request the full database. After requesting the database, the database is emailed to the requester either as a csv or Excel file. This database is built off of publicly available sources, and as a result, permissions are not required.
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Kiss, Marissa, Katelyn E. Foltz, Angela Hattery, Katie Mirance, and Earl Smith. "What Is a Girl Worth?: Gender-Based Violence and Accountability in SportsWorld", Sociology of Sport Journal (published online ahead of print 2024), accessed Jun 28, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2023-0135