Introduction — Sports Celebrities, Doping and Narratives of Deviance

Abstract

This chapter explores a number of inter-related issues — how researchers have previously engaged with the connections between crime and deviance on the one hand, and sport on the other; how we can understand the importance of celebrity and sporting heroism in contemporary culture; and how the analysis of autobiographical narratives can furnish a fruitful avenue for grasping the making and unmaking of criminal and deviant identities.