Jim Orford

Gebundenes Buch

The Gambling Establishment

Challenging the Power of the Modern Gambling Industry and its Allies

Beschreibung

Drawing on research and policy examples from around the world, the book provides a unified understanding of the dangerousness of modern commercialised gambling, how its expansion has been deliberately or inadvertently supported, and how the backlash is now occurring.

Autor

Jim Orford is Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Birmingham. He is a long-standing, internationally recognised researcher and writer in the fields of addiction and community psychology, one of the UK's leading academics on the subject of gambling, and well-known for his critical views on policy. In 2012 he set up the Gambling Watch UK website to help campaign for a public health approach to gambling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9780367085681
• ISBN-10: 0367085682
• Artikelnr.: 57781653