Research On Criminal Regulation Of Competitive Sports Violence

Competitive sports violence is a form of physical,human inflicted violence that requires certain consequences and premised on the rules violation in sports competition.Any behavior should be carried out within the legal framework,and severe acts of athletic violence that causes serious consequences should be regulated by criminal law.A distinction should be made between slight sports violations and severe violations.In the case of slight acts of competitive sports violence,which are aimed at winning a competition by violating the rules of the competition,even if they have caused some damages,the criminal law should retain its modesty and it may be prevented from being illegal by a number of justifiable causes.From a social perspective,there are theories of permitted risk and social equivalence.From the victim’s perspective,there is the theory of victim commitment.From the perspective of the aggressors,there is the theory of legitimate business behavior.All of justifiable causes illustrate that slight violations are tolerated within certain limits from different perspectives and are regulated by criminal law when exceeding the necessary limits.There is a space for criminal law to regulate when severe acts of athletic violence result in severe damages.As a protective and supplementary law,Criminal law should play its punitive and preventive role.It should be incorporated into criminal law when there are no justifiable causes and obstructions of criminal liability.It may constitute the crime of intentional injury,the crime of negligently causing serious injury and crime of negligent homicide.Considering the specificity of the competitive sports business,the degree of danger to society and the fault of the victim,it is advisable to be relatively lenient in sentencing for crimes in competitive sports.