![handle is hein.journals/crmlsc74 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime, Law and Social Change (2020) 74:1-12
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-020-09892-4
Deconstructing match-fixing: a holistic framework Check for
for sport integrity policies
Marcelo Moriconi 12t
Published online: 3 March 2020
O Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract
On the 1st of September 2019, the Council of Europe Convention against the Manip-
ulation of Sports Competitions entered into force. This official mandate appears to
confirm the significance of the issue on the political agenda. For sports governance
bodies, the problem is one of the biggest threats against the integrity and sustainability
of their industry. Despite this political-institutional situation, the phenomenon still
remains under-studied in the academic world and several authors have emphasized
the need for more and better empirical research to verify the premises (sometimes
unfounded) on which the official preventive narrative of the problem is built. This
special issue, Deconstructing Match-fixing, comes to light to address this issue.
Systematizing the evidence presented along the contributions, this introductory article
attempts to dispel some 'myths' in the official preventive narrative, offers some lessons
for a better understanding of the phenomenon, and promotes recommendations for
establishing more evidence-based public policies and educational campaigns.
Keywords Match-fixing - Corruption - Public policy - Educational campaigns - Betting-
market - Sport integrity - Narratives
Why a special issue on this topic?
In recent years, it has become increasingly common to hear that match-fixing is one of
the greatest threats to the integrity and sustainability of professional sports [1-5].
Accordingly, sports governing bodies (such as the International Olympic Committee
-IOC-, the F6d6ration Internationale de Football Association -FIFA- or the International
W Marcelo Moriconi
marcelo.moriconi@iscte-iul.pt
Iscte - Instituto UniversitArio de Lisboa, Centre for International Studies (CEI-Iscte), Lisbon,
Portugal
2 CEI - Iscte, Instituto UniversitArio de Lisbioa, Avenida das Forqas Armadas, 1649-026 Lisbon,
Portugal
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