VIOLENCE MANAGEMENT IN FOOTBALL?: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENGLAND AND BELGIUM

Abstract

This article arises from the need to review and think approaches of regulation and management of violence in football spectacle regarding the installed complaining standpoint of heavy-hand. Taking into consideration the Mexican and the Argetinian contexts, it is possible to observe how media as well as other actors involved in the business quote time and again England´s success regarding their hooligans. In opposition to this vision that has been translated into security arrangements. Two management approaches are here compared: the commercial transformation of the British football and the Belgic experience of sanctions combined with social prevention schemas. The objective aims at generating public policy discussion in order to find useful and discernible tools for other contexts.