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Trust, Competition, and Preventive Justice: Responding to Rule Violations in Sport

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The Journal of Ethics

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Meaningful sporting competition rests on athletes complying with rules that they can easily violate undetected. From match-fixing, where players attempt to lose by illegitimate means, to doping, where players attempt to win by illegitimate means, sport is replete with trust-based rules. How should s...

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