ABSTRACT

The recent history of the policing of Scottish football has been tempestuous. The enactment of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 subjected those attending regulated football matches to a range of new forms of control, and mobilised significant fan resistance that resulted in the Act’s eventual repeal in 2018. By this time, however, significant damage had been inflicted upon fan-police relations, with a concomitant impact on communication and fan engagement. Drawing upon the findings of qualitative research conducted in Scotland, the analysis herein documents a recognition on all sides of the poor state of fan-police relations following the implementation of the original Act. This research traces an emergent shift in some policing sensibilities towards more constructive forms of police-fan engagement and communication following the Act’s repeal. However, the study also highlights significant challenges to such emergent sensibilities, acknowledging, via a case study, that they exist in parallel with still highly problematic practices and approaches in the policing of football fans in Scotland.

摘要

苏格兰足球监管的近期历史风起云涌。2012 年《足球进攻行为和威胁通信（苏格兰）法》的颁布使参加受监管足球比赛的人受到一系列新形式的控制，并动员了球迷的强烈抵制，最终导致该法于 2018 年被废除。此时，然而，粉丝与警察的关系受到了重大损害，同时对沟通和粉丝参与产生了影响。根据在苏格兰进行的定性研究的结果，本文的分析记录了在执行原始法案后，各方都认识到球迷与警察关系的糟糕状态。这项研究追溯了该法案废除后，一些警务敏感度向更具建设性的警民参与和交流形式的紧急转变。然而，该研究还强调了这种新兴情感面临的重大挑战，通过案例研究承认，它们与苏格兰球迷警务中仍然存在高度问题的做法和方法同时存在。