Doping in Sports: A Compliance Conundrum

In this chapter from The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, Jeffrey Cisyk and Pascal Courty review the history of doping regulations, contemporary anti-doping policies and the effectiveness thereof, as well as the public’s perception of the current state of doping in sports. The authors discuss how detection, testing and punishment influence compliance and, ultimately, the prevalence of doping. The chapter offers a general framework to understand why anti-doping objectives are difficult to achieve and assesses some of the proposed solutions to improve current anti-doping policies.