White Sock Crime - Organizational Deviance in Intercollegiate Athletics

• NCJ Number: 86480
• Journal: Journal of Sport and Social Issues Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Dated: (1980) Pages: 26-32
• Author(s): J P Santomier; W G Howard; L Piltz; T J Romance
• Date Published: 1980
• Length: 7 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Shorter version presented at the First Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, Denver, Colorado, October 1980

Annotation

An organizational deviance perspective can provide sport sociologists with a framework for examining the nature of deviance within intercollegiate athletics and can be used with other theoretical frameworks for examining patterned social deviance in sports.

Abstract

Results of initial investigations of incidents precipitating the recent intercollegiate athletic scandals attributed responsibility for those incidents to specific workers, athletes, administrators, and faculty members. However, a consideration of these incidents as acts of organizations, rather than as acts of individuals, may facilitate a more systematic analysis and a more comprehensive understanding of patterned social deviance within intercollegiate sports. Formal sport organizations commit deviant and illegal acts, and other formal sport organizations have responsibility for controlling that deviance. About 20 references are attached. (Author abstract modified)