[ noun ] willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others <noun.act>
The polls also have most Britons citing soccer hooliganism and street crime to back their belief that the country has become more violent.
The 19-year-old pilot, who is charged with illegally entering Soviet airspace and with hooliganism, faces as long as 10 years in prison.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher apologized Sunday to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for the hooliganism displayed by British soccer spectators in his country, officials said.
Police in Glasgow had expected problems and made special plans for controlling hooliganism surrounding the game.
Two people were sentenced to life in prison and three others to jail terms of five years to 12 years for "hooliganism" during rioting in the Chinese city of Xian this spring, an official report said.
On Thursday, the British government proposed barring England's national team from the World Cup, the Olympics and other international events in a five-part crackdown on soccer hooliganism.
About 200 Chinese students demonstrated in Beijing today against "hooliganism" and for women's rights after an African man allegedly accosted a Chinese woman in her dormitory.
Czechoslovakia said several of the scores of dissidents and protesters detained in Prague last week could be tried on charges ranging from incitement to hooliganism.
A prosecutor informed activists that those two will face hooliganism charges, Maly said.
Two of the suspects, unemployed young men with criminal records, were charged with murder and hooliganism, according to the official Legal Daily.
Wang Jianming and Wang Yonglian were convicted of hooliganism and sentenced to 15 and seven years in prison, respectively.
It said five Swedish youths were arrested on charges of hooliganism, theft and drunkenness.
The 49-year-old Nazarbayev was the first Soviet official to admit the 1986 unrest was ethnically motivated and not hooliganism as press reports claimed.