Routledge international handbook of Internet gambling / edited by Robert J. Williams, Robert T. Wood and Jonathan Parke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parke, Jonathan.

Williams, Robert J.

Wood, Robert T., 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet gambling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Handbook of Internet gambling

International handbook of Internet gambling

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy implications. Until recently, Internet gambling has been understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet gambling and its attendant implications.As jurisdictions around the world grapple to understand the best way to respond to Internet gambling from a commercial, regulatory, and social perspective, scholarly studies of Internet gambling are becoming an ever more crucial resource. The <

Contents:

History, current worldwide situation, and concerns with internet gambling / Robert J. Williams, Robert T. Wood, and Jonathan Parke

Online gambling : an economics perspective / David Forrest

The internet gambling industry / Lorien Pilling and Warwick Bartlett

Business models for online gambling / Melody Morgan-Busher

Regulation and reputation : the Gibraltar approach / Natalia Zborowska, Sytze F. Kingma and Phill Brear

The Casino City study : a large scale international study of online gamblers / Robert T. Wood and Robert J. Williams

Internet poker in Sweden in 2007 / Jakob Jonsson

The eCOGRA global online gambler report / Jonathan Parke ... [et al.]

The bwin.party Division on Addictions Research Collaborative : challenges for the 'normal science' of internet gambling / Debi A. LaPlante ... [et al.]

Online gambling among youth : cause for concern? / Mark Griffiths, Jeffrey L. Derevensky, and Jonathan Parke

The relationship between internet gambling and problem gambling / Robert T. Wood, Robert J. Williams, and Jonathan Parke

Investigating the heterogeneity of problem gambling symptoms in internet gamblers / Joanne Lloyd ... [et al.]

Internet gambling, player protection, and social responsibility / Mark D. Griffiths

Online clinical support for people with gambling problems / Sally Gainsbury and Richard Wood

Internet gambling law / I. Nelson Rose

Internet gambling policy in Europe / George Häberling

The only thing certain is uncertainty? : internet gambling in the United States, 1961-2011 / Bo J. Bernhard and Andrew Montgomery

Internet gambling and the Kahnawà:ke First Nation / Yale D. Belanger

Internet gambling and online crime / John L. McMullan and Aunshul Rege

Policy options for internet gambling / Robert J. Williams, Robert T. Wood, and Jonathan Parke.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-81457-6

1-283-86263-8

1-136-70813-8

9780203814574

OCLC:

823387099