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 Handbook of Internet Gambling consolidates this emerging body of literature into a single reference volume. Its twenty chapters comprise groundbreaking contributions from the world’s leading authorities in the commercial, clinical, political and social aspects of Internet gambling.
It is sure to be a foundational resource for academics, students, regulators, politicians, policy makers, commercial providers, and health care professionals who have an interest in understanding the history, dynamics, and impacts of Internet gambling in a global context.
Part 1: Introduction
1. History, Current Worldwide Situation, and Concerns with Internet Gambling
Robert Williams, Robert Wood and Jonathan ParkePart 2: Commercial/Business
Aspects
2. Online Gambling: An Economics Perspective David Forrest
3. The
Internet Gambling Industry Lorien Pilling and Warwick Bartlett
4. Business
Models for Online Gambling by Melody Morgan-Busher
5. Regulation and
Reputation: The Gibraltar Approach Natalia Zborowska, Sytze Kingma and Phill
BrearPart 3: Major Research Studies of Internet Gamblers
6. The Casino City
Study: A Large Scale International Study of Online Gamblers Robert Wood and
Robert Williams
7. Internet Poker in Sweden in 2007 Jakob Jonsson
8. The
eCOGRA Global Online Gambler Report Jonathan Parke, Jane L. Rigbye, Adrian J.
Parke and Leighton Vaughan-Williams
9. The bwin.party Division on Addictions
Research Collaborative: Challenges for the Normal Science of Internet
Gambling Debi LaPlante, Sarah Nelson, Richard Labrie and Howard ShafferPart
4: Clinical Aspects
10. Online Gambling among Youth: Cause for Concern? Mark
Griffiths, Jeffrey Derevensky and Jonathan Parke
11. The Relationship between
Internet Gambling and Problem Gambling Robert Wood, Robert Williams and
Jonathan Parke
12. Investigating the Heterogeneity of Problem Gambling
Symptoms in Internet Gamblers Joanne Lloyd, Helen Doll, Keith Hawton, William
H. Dutton, John Geddes, Guy Goodwin and Robert D. Rogers
13. Internet
Gambling, Player Protection, and Social Responsibility Mark Griffiths
14.
Online Clinical Support for People with Gambling Problems Sally Gainsbury and
Richard WoodPart 5: Legal and Policy Issues
15. Internet Gambling Law I.
Nelson Rose
16. Internet Gambling Policy in Europe George Häberling
17. The
Only Thing is Uncertainty? Internet Gambling in the United States 1961-2011
Bo Bernhard and Andrew Montgomery
18. Internet Gambling and the Kahnawà:ke
First Nation Yale Belanger
19. Internet Gambling and Online Crime John
McMullan and Aunshul Rege
20. Policy Options for Internet Gambling Robert
Williams, Robert Wood and Jonathan Parke
Robert Williams is a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta and also a Coordinator for the Alberta Gambling Research Institute. Dr. Williams teaches courses on gambling and provides frequent consultation to government, industry, the media, and public interest groups. He is one of the worlds best funded gambling researchers and a leading authority in the socioeconomic impacts of gambling, Internet gambling, prevention of problem gambling, the proportion of gambling revenue deriving from problem gamblers, the prevalence and nature of gambling in Aboriginal communities, the etiology of problem gambling, and best practices in the population assessment of gambling and problem gambling.
Robert Wood is an associate professor of Sociology, and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, at the University of Lethbridge. Over the past decade, Dr. Wood has been involved in a number of large scale research projects, dealing with various socio-cultural aspects of problem gambling. He is known particularly for his studies on Internet gambling, the link between government gambling revenue and problem gamblers, and the prevention of problem gambling among teens.
Jonathan Parke is a senior lecturer at Salford Business School, University of Salford. Dr Parke has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, government reports and other publications and has given over 40 conference papers and talks regarding internet gambling, poker-playing, electronic gaming machines and gambling-related risk.
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