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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.
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.
This book explores the manifold actual, possible and probable
interconnections between gambling and crime in the context of the
increased availability of wagering activities across many regions
of the world. It examines the impact of the proliferation and
propinquity of land-based betting establishments on crime, the role
of organised crime in the provision of both licit and illicit forms
of gambling, as well as problem gambling, crime and the
administration of criminal justice. It also assesses the links
between gambling, sport and corruption and the dimensions of crime
that takes place in and around internet gambling sites. A
thought-provoking study, this will be of particular interest to
scholars in the fields of sociology, criminology and social policy.
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