Jim Orford

The Gambling Establishment (eBook, ePUB)

Challenging the Power of the Modern Gambling Industry and its Allies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429632594
• Artikelnr.: 57646031

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
List of Figures
Introduction
1. The new backlash against the growth of commercial gambling
2. The Gambling Establishment: The industry and its allies inside and
outside government
3. The establishment discourse: Five ways we were told how to think about
gambling
4. How gambling is forcibly advertised and sold in the modern era
5. Is modern gambling fraudulent? How players are deceived about the
chances of winning
6. Understanding gambling addiction: Bringing personal experience and
theory together
7. Gambling¿s harm to individuals, families, communities, and society
8. How the Gambling Establishment has used evidence to support its position
9. Resisting the power of the Gambling Establishment: A manifesto for
change
References
Index