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Sport is socially important. It encourages people to exercise, contributes to a healthy lifestyle, and can also promote social cohesion in a neighbourhood or municipality.
Sport can also be vulnerable to criminal interference or undermining. This report presents the findings of a study on undermining in amateur sports in the 25 municipalities in the RIEC region of Rotterdam. In addition to unravelling the phenomenon and identifying indicators of criminal interference, predictions have been made based on a data model about the extent of undermining in amateur sports. Furthermore, a course of action has been developed regarding detection and response.
The research was commissioned by the RIEC Rotterdam and the Municipality of Rotterdam and was carried out by a consortium of three parties: Bureau Beke for the criminological perspective, Dialogic for the data analysis, and the Vrije Universiteit – sports and law – for the course of action.
