Abstract
The recommendation of match fixing prevention strategies presumes a thoughtful understanding of the actors involved and the dynamics of the events and also of the specific functioning of the legal and sports institutions of each local context. In this chapter we consider the development of an academic agenda about match fixing in Brazil by discussing the Brazilian institutional architecture and its capacity to fight and prevent match fixing, including ordinary Justice System and Sports Justice institutions. To illustrate it, we explore three famous examples of match fixing events occurred in Brazilian soccer and the official reactions. The main goal of the chapter is to bring about policy recommendations at the light of the existing literature findings, in relation to Brazilian context and its institutional debilities. By doing this, we intend to identify a possible field of studies that could be carried out by Brazilian academe and deficient areas that should receive intellectual investment.
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The International Police Organization – Interpol – indicates that the illegal betting market in Asia alone is worth up to 500 billion dollars.
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Brazilian law broadly define corruption as a kind of fraud – a malpractice in the criminal, civil or procedural field, by deception or bad faith, with the goal of prejudicing the state or third parties or to flee the performance of an obligation.
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The collected data included information on referees’ and linesmen’s personal characteristics and career paths; their decisions during each match was obtained from the websites and printed editions of Italian daily newspapers; referees’ and linesmen’s grades were collected from the official evaluations provided by the Italian Referee Association; the Team Performance Index, IVS, obtained by the Panini group; the list of the matches being rigged drawn from official judicial records (Boeri and Severgnini 2011: 350).
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Godinho, L., Barbosa, C. (2013). Topics for an Academic Agenda: The Prevention of Match Fixing in Brazil. In: Haberfeld, M., Sheehan, D. (eds) Match-Fixing in International Sports. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02582-7_12
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