Online gambling and crime: causes, controls and controversies

BANKS, James (2014). Online gambling and crime: causes, controls and controversies. Farnham, Ashgate.

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Abstract

Offering the first empirically driven assessment of the development, marketisation, regulation and use of online gambling organisations and their products, this book explores the relationship between online gambling and crime. It draws upon quantitative and qualitative data, including textual and visual analyses of e-gambling advertising and the records of player-protection and standards organisations, together with a virtual ethnography of online gambling subcultures, to examine the ways in which gambling and crime have been approached in practice by gamers, regulatory agencies and online gambling organisations. Building upon contemporary criminological theory, it develops an understanding of online gambling as an arena in which risks and rewards are carefully constructed and through which players navigate, employing their own agency to engage with the very real possibility of victimisation. With attention to the manner in which online gambling can be a source of criminal activity, not only on the part of players, but also criminal entrepreneurs and legitimate gambling businesses, Online Gambling and Crime discusses developments in criminal law and regulatory frameworks, evaluating past and present policy on online gambling. A rich examination of the prevalence, incidence and experience of a range of criminal activities linked to gambling on the Internet, this book will appeal to scholars and policy makers in the fields of sociology and criminology, law, the study of culture and subculture, risk, health studies and social policy.

Item Type: Authored Book
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Law Research Group
Depositing User: James Banks
Date Deposited: 20 Feb 2015 13:16
Last Modified: 17 Mar 2021 19:31
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9347

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