The role of aggression and violence in sport: A rejoinder to the ISSP position stand

This paper is intended as a response to the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Position Stand on aggression and violence in sport (Tenen baum, Stewart, Singer, & Duda, 1997). It challenges several arguments prese nted in the ISSP Position Stand. The current paper offers several counterar guments designed to clarify the real nature of aggression and violence in s port. It also suggests that the ISSP recommendations for dramatically reduc ing the incidence of aggression and violence in sport be radically revised and redrafted.