By Anastassia Tsoukala

Providing the first EU-wide study of the way football hooliganism has been defined by academics, lawmakers and enforcers, and the media since the 1960s, this book examines the regulation and policing of the phenomenon, which has been influenced by security-related developments within post-bipolar Europe. Tsoukala analyses the impact that changes within the European security field have had on the regulation and policing of hooliganism, at both national and EU level, and reveals the interaction between all actors involved in controlling football hooliganism, as well as a gradual institutionalized erosion of civil liberties that has been legitimized as an ongoing feature of democratic legal systems through broad social consensus.

Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 179p.