Table of Contents Page 1 - Table of Contents Page 2 - Heading 1.0-Introduction 2.0-What constitutes violence 3.0-Assault on the field 3.1-Tribunals 3.2-Definition of assault Page 3 - 3.3-Consent to assault 4.0-Case Study 1 5.0-Voluntary assumption of risk 5.1-Consent to contact Page 4 - 5.2-Unlawful actions 6.0-Case Study 2 7.0-Conclusion Page 5 - 8.0-Bibliography Assault In Sport By Fraser Thomas 12.7 2001 1.0 Introduction The thing about human beings is that they can't agree. When our first ancestors slimed out of the oceans and one group of sludge thought it was better to live in trees while the other thought it blatantly obvious that the ground was the hip place to be. We've disagreed about pretty well everything else ever since. It's a small wonder, then, that homo sapiens have spent most of their short time on Earth waging war against each other. But now in the twenty first century, we have hit a major problem. We have gotten so good at war, we can't have one anymore. With war gone people have started to take their sport more seriously. This has lead to higher aggression in the sports themselves. In a land where people pride themselves in their sporting prowess, the aggression has overspilled to violence on the sporting field. 2.0 What constitutes violence But what is the boundary between aggression and violence on the sporting field? What constitutes violence in sport? Most coaches urge their players to go hard and be first to the ball. But by going hard are they actually telling them to injure another person? I don't think the problem lies with the coaches but with the passion of the game. Too many parents push their kids every week. You see them every time you are at a local footie match. They're the ones yelling at their son/daughter all the time and they know everything about the game and they tell the team what to do, but they aren't the coaches. They push their kids until the reach the limit,...