Purpose: Despite the strong belief in sports programs as a setting in which socially
vulnerable youth can develop life skills, no overview exists of life skill development in sports …

Sport is frequently regarded as an effectual mechanism for promoting positive youth
development (PYD). However, this connection is not inherent, and depends upon a variety …

Objectives Sports programs are widely implemented as measures of crime prevention. In
contrast to their popularity, there is little systematic knowledge about their effectiveness. This …

Rethinking Sports and Integration offers a critical cultural analysis of the idea that sport can
promote the integration of migrants and their descendants. It examines the origins of this …

Sport has the potential to serve as a context in which youth can develop as players and
people. Positive youth development (PYD) through sport is a prevalent strength-based …

The field of sport for development (SFD) has been criticised for the way that evidence has
been produced and used to account for and demonstrate the perceived success of SFD …

This article examines the impact of physical-sports activities on the psychological wellbeing
of Spanish and Colombian young people. Scientific literature highlights that young people …

Poverty still counts as the core of social exclusion from sport and many other domains of
people's lives. In the first part of this paper, we shortly describe the recent poverty trends in …

Numerous sport-based interventions exist which target marginalised or 'at-risk'young people
with the intention of enabling some form of social change for programme participants. Very …

In recent years sport-based interventions have been implemented as a mechanism via
which to target marginalised youth in relation to the development of social inclusion. Much of …