Promoting athlete welfare: A proposal for an international surveillance system |
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| Institution: | 1. Lincoln University, Forbes 611, P.O. Box 85084, Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand;2. University of Toronto, Room 101, 65 St. George Street, University of Toronto, M5S 2Z9, Canada;1. UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney, 1-15 Broadway, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia;2. Surf Life Saving Australia, Locked Bag 1010, Rosebery, NSW 2018, Australia;1. Department of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, Spinnaker Building, Cambridge Road, Portsmouth PO1 2ER, United Kingdom;2. Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Research Centre for Exercise, School and Sport, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, The Netherlands;4. Université Clermont Auvergne, Laboratoire ACTé EA 4281, Clermont-Ferrand, France;1. Ulster University, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, BT380QB, United Kingdom;2. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain;3. University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom;1. Nichols College, Conant Hall, 405, 129 Center Rd, Dudley, MA 01571, United States;2. Trinity University, 1 Trinity Pl, San Antonio, TX 78212, United States;1. Department of Sport and Event Management, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK;2. School of Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Efforts to ensure the welfare of athletes have long existed in sport but have heightened recently across numerous countries in response to shocking revelations of sexual abuse in sport. Cases such as the sexual abuse of female gymnasts by a team doctor in the U.S. and sexual abuse of male footballers by a coach in the U.K. have drawn significant attention and scrutiny by stakeholders in sport and the public alike. These and other cases indicate that in spite of existing athlete welfare policies, educational programmes, and efforts to ensure compliance, numerous athletes were abused, the perpetrators were permitted to continue over an extended period of time, and some adults knew of the abuses and were complicit in failing to intervene. In this article, the authors use Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory to review the current landscape with respect to initiatives to prevent and address athlete maltreatment at each level of the theory. The authors also propose that to advance athlete welfare, more attention needs to be devoted to the development of interventions at the macrosystem or international level. Using Bruno Latour’s concept of the oligopticon (1992) an argument is forwarded to create an international surveillance system to promote athlete welfare. |
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| Keywords: | Maltreatment Abuse Surveillance Bronfenbrenner Latour Oligopticon |
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