Controlling Violence in Professional Sports: Rule Reform and the Federal Professional Sports Violence Commission

Authors

Ronald A. DiNicola
Scott Mendeloff

Abstract

This article addresses the problem of violence in sports and assesses the inability of the traditional legal mechanisms of tort and criminal law to control this violence. The authors also examine the major schemes to stem sports violence that have been considered by Congress. Finally, the authors propose the control of violent behavior through legislatively mandated rule reforms enforced by a Federal Professional Sports Violence Commission.

First Page

843

Recommended Citation

Ronald A. DiNicola & Scott Mendeloff, Controlling Violence in Professional Sports: Rule Reform and the Federal Professional Sports Violence Commission, 21 Duq. L. Rev. 843 (1983).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol21/iss4/3