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Gambling : who wins? who loses?
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- Creator
- edited by Gerda Reith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781591020738, 1591020735
- OCLC
- ocm50898768
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction : Pathology and profit : controversies in the expansion of legal gambling / Gerda Reith -- I. Current trends in commercial gambling -- Values and choices : the struggle to find balance with permitted gambling in modern society / William R. Eadington ; From local to global gambling cultures / Jan McMillen -- II. Economic and social costs and benefits -- Cutting the cards and craps : right thinking about gambling economics / Earl L. Grinols ; Grand illusions / Robert Goodman ; Community satisfaction with casino gambling : an assessment after the fact / B. Grant Stitt, Mark Nichols & David Giacopassi -- III. Law, crime, and commercial regulation -- Gambling and the law : the new millennium / I. Nelson Rose ; Is it a crime to bet on the net? / Michael E. Hammond ; Casino gambling and crime / Jay Albanese ; Fair deal for the player? regulation and competition as guarantors of consumer protection in commercial gambling / David Miers -- IV. Addiction debate -- Critical view of pathological gambling and addiction : comorbidity makes for syndromes and other strange bedfellows / Howard J. Shaffer ; Pathological gambling : what's in a name? or, how the United States got it wrong / Mark Dickerson ; Is gambling an addiction like drug and alcohol addiction? developing realistic and useful conceptions of compulsive gambling / Stanton Peele -- V. Social trends, problem gambling, and the challenge to public policy -- Paying the piper : gambling and problem gambling in America / Rachel A. Volberg ; Youth gambling : some social policy issues / Jeffrey L. Derevensky et al. ; Late-life gambling : the attitudes and behaviors of older adults / Dennis P. McNeilly & William J. Burke ; Public policy response to problem gambling / Keith Whyte -- VI. Psychological and environmental factors -- Environmental psychology of gambling / Mark Griffiths & Jonathan Parke ; Probability on the casino floor / Neil A. Manson -- VII. Ethical and philosophical issues -- Regulating vice : America's struggle with wicked pleasure / Jerome H. Skolnick ; Moral case for legalizing gambling / Peter Collins ; Playing the gods : gambling and spirituality, a new anthropological perspective / Kathryn Gabriel ; Combustion : an essay on the value of gambling / John Scanlan