500 Ea Qualifing Result Sports
Some police, community professionals and social workers note violence in society diminishes at the start of the football season in many of the world’s nations. If this is so, there must be a connection between crimes of violence and not participating team sports.
Community Perspective
Trevor Wilson MA, CEO of Whakatu Marae and Supervisor to the management of the National Network for Stopping Violence in New Zealand discusses violence after many years working proactively in the field. He says, “We like belonging to groups. If we don’t have those groups that get you together for a particular purpose, it allows people to hide, to be secretive, allows an opportunity to be unoccupied. When you are involved in groups they have guidelines, rules, outcomes, ways for behaving. It’s kind of like accepted behavior but there is a whole lot of stuff that is not acceptable so sporting activities for me is one of the greatest activities to control behavior.
"It is self-control. It is self-control of a whole group. You have positions. Even the Business Round Table has rules and if you do not keep them you are out. In rugby there are rules and the moment you become a lout you are ostracized. Bikie gangs have an absolute way of behavior that you must do and, if you don’t behave the right way, the outcome is absolute. There is an acceptable practice and if you step outside of it you are reprimanded. All these groups have different ways of reprimanding.”
