- Provides a holistic account for the many connections between gambling, sport and organised crime
- Addresses the problems associated with numerous forms of gambling: in betting shops, online and animal fighting
- Questions the links between the psychology of addiction and gambling-related crime
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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James Banks is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Department of Law and Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Towards Global Gambling
Pages 1-30
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Bringing Crime to the City? Casinos, Betting Shops and Criminality
Pages 31-62
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Gambling, Problem Gambling, Crime and the Criminal Justice System
Pages 63-109
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Organised Crime, Gambling and Illegal Gambling
Pages 111-136
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Gambling, Sport and Corruption
Pages 137-181
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Gambling, Crime and Society
- Authors
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- James Banks
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-57994-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-57994-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-57993-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 243
- Topics
