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The Gambling Establishment - Challenging the Power of the Modern Gambling Industry and its Allies (Hardcover)
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The Gambling Establishment - Challenging the Power of the Modern Gambling Industry and its Allies (Hardcover)
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There are now signs that, after decades of phenomenal growth, the
era of unrestrained gambling liberalisation may be coming to an
end. However, the power of the Gambling Establishment is
formidable, and it will certainly fight back. Drawing on research
and policy examples from around the world, the book provides a
unified understanding of the dangerousness of modern commercialised
gambling, how its expansion has been deliberately or inadvertently
supported, and how the backlash is now occurring. The term Gambling
Establishment is defined to include the industry which sells
gambling, governments which support it, and a wider network of
organisations and individuals who have subscribed to the
'responsible gambling' Establishment discourse. Topics covered
include the psychology of how gambling is now being advertised and
promoted and the way it is designed to deceive gamblers about their
chances of winning; the increased exposure of young people to
gambling and the alignment of gambling with sport; understanding
the experience of gambling addiction; the various public health
harms of gambling at individual, family, community and societal
levels; and how evidence has been used to resist change. The book's
final chapter offers the author's manifesto for policy change,
designed with Britain particularly in mind but likely to have
relevance elsewhere. With detailed examples given of the ways a
number of countries are responding to these threats to their
citizens' health, this book will be of global interest for
academics, researchers, policymakers and service providers in the
field of gambling or other addictions specifically, and public
health and social policy generally.
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