Crime, Deviance and Doping: Fallen Sports Stars, Autobiography and the Management of Stigma (Palgrave Pivot)

by Majid Yar (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2014

  $75.43

  Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, it illuminates how fallen stars use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption.