1. Introduction -- Definitions -- Interpretations -- Solutions -- 2. Roman Sports Violence -- Sports Violence -- Spectator Violence -- Conclusion -- 3. Unsporting Behavior: The Control of Football and Horse-Racing Crowds in England, 1875-1914 -- Types of Crowd Disorder -- Crowd-Control Measures -- Some Limits of Crowd Control -- 4. What Is Sports Violence? A Sociolegal Perspective -- A Typology of Sports Violence -- Conclusion -- 5. Athletic Aggression: A Moral Concern -- The Ambiguity of Violence -- The Valuing of Violence -- The Psychological Nature of Morality -- The Psychological Nature of Aggression -- Athletic Aggression as a Social-Conventional Issue -- Moral Reasoning and Aggressive Behavior -- Conclusions -- 6. Perceived Injustice and Sports Violence -- Some Examples of Justice-Based Sports Violence -- Overview -- Definition of Perceived Injustice -- Previous Claims About Justice and Sports Violence -- Other Causes of Sports Violence -- Perceived Injustices in Sports: A Typology and Some Recommendations -- What Society Can Learn from Sports -- Are Sports Special? -- Conclusion -- 7. Aggressive Behavior of Soccer Players as Social Interaction -- Soccer as a Field for Studying Aggressive Interaction -- Aggressive Behavior as Social Interaction -- Aggressive Interaction and Its Evaluation in Professional Soccer: Two Case Studies -- The Referee's Power of Interpretation -- Conclusions -- 8. Social Bonding and Violence in Sport: A Theoretical-Empirical Analysis -- Towards a Typology of Human Violence -- Sports and Violence in Developmental Perspective -- Violence and the Transformation of Social Bonds -- Segmental Bonding and the Sociogenesis of Affective Violence -- 9. Sports, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution: Problems of Substance and Methodology -- Factual Accounts and Theoretical Explanations-A Short Review -- A Structural Interpretation of the Sports Contest -- Some Methodological Observations and Structural Theory -- Conclusion: Instead of a Comprehensive Theory -- Some Praxeological Advances for Sports Policy -- Summary -- 10. Psychological Issues in Sports Aggression -- Valves, Vents, and Drains: The Catharsis Hypothesis -- Outcome -- Conclusions -- 11. Olympic Games Participation and Warfare -- A Test of the Hypotheses -- Conclusions -- 12. Sports Violence and the Media -- The Presence and Nature of Sports Violence -- Does Aggression Increase Spectators' Enjoyment of Sports? -- Media Exploitation of Sports Violence -- Where Will It All End? -- Author Index.