Teen Involvement in Sports and Risky Behaviour: A Cross-national and Gendered Analysis

A growing body of evidence suggests a link between youth participation in sport and delinquency including violence and problematic alcohol use. No studies have yet conducted a large-scale cross-national study of this relationship. Furthermore, few studies have probed whether there are threshold effects or turning points in the level of sports participation for delinquency. Specifically, by considering differences by gender, type of delinquency...