Table of Contents

1. Security and sport mega-events: a complex relation National Sport Events 2. Controlling football-related violence in France: law and order versus the rule of law 3. Normalization of the exception: issues and controversies of the Italian counter-hooliganism legislation 4. Risk, security and technology: governing football supporters in the twenty-first century 5. Electronic surveillance in Greek stadia: bureaucratic process and bargaining games of a failed operation International Sport Events 6. Torcedores de futebol: violence and public policies in Brazil before the 2014 FIFA World Cup 7. Armed forces and sports mega events: an accepted involvement in a globalized world 8. London 2012: securing urban Olympic delivery 9. Social control in sports and the CCTV issue: a critical criminological approach

About the Author

Diamantis Mastrogiannakis has a Ph.D in Sport Sociology (University of Lille 2) and he is a contractual Lecturer at the Department of Sport Sciences of the same University. His publications concern the regulation of hooliganism in Greece and security issues. He co-edited a book titled Risk Management and Sport Events (Le Mansuscrit, Paris 2012) and he is preparing a book in French "La régulation du hooliganism en Grèce: jeux et enjeux des politiques anti-hooligan".

Christian Dorville is a Maître de Conference H.D.R. (Associate Professor) at the Sports Department of the University of Lille 2, member of the research centre ER3S (Equipe de Recherche Septentriole Sport et Société) and associated researcher at GIREST (Inter-University Research Group Sport and Tourism). He is the editor of diverse books regarding sport identities and cultural issues such as Sport en Nord (2006), Grandes figures sportives du Nord (2011), Le Patrimoine de nos régions: ruine ou richesse future? (2011).