Описание: While most research has examined the legal, economic and psychological sides of gambling, this innovative collection offers a wide range of cultural perspectives on gambling organizations. Contributors not only examine the global influence of commercial gambling, but also demonstrate how the local qualities of gambling organizations remain unique.
Описание: A comprehensive history of crime and corruption in Cuba, The Cuban Connection challenges the common view that widespread poverty and geographic proximity to the United States were the prime reasons for soaring rates of drug trafficking, smuggling, gambling, and prostitution in the tumultuous decades preceding the Cuban revolution. Eduardo Saenz Rovner argues that Cuba's historically well-established integration into international migration, commerce, and transportation networks combined with political instability and rampant official corruption to help lay the foundation for the development of organized crime structures powerful enough to affect Cuba's domestic and foreign politics and its very identity as a nation.Saenz traces the routes taken around the world by traffickers and smugglers. After Cuba, the most important player in this story is the United States. The involvement of gangsters and corrupt U.S. officials and businessmen enabled prohibited substances to reach a strong market in the United States, from rum running during Prohibition to increased demand for narcotics during the Cold War. Originally published in Colombia in 2005, this first English-language edition has been revised and updated by the author.
Автор: Casey Название: Women, Pleasure and the Gambling Experience ISBN: 1138266922 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138266926 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on a broad range of historical and sociological literature, this book traces the everyday gambling experiences of a diverse group of women. It provides fascinating insights into the pleasures afforded to women through their gambling participation, examines their motivations and experience of play, and investigates how women negotiate their right to gamble without reprimand.
Описание: Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today's lotteries can be found in an African American gambling economy that flourished in urban communities in the mid-twentieth century. In Running the Numbers, Matthew Vaz reveals how the politics of gambling became enmeshed in disputes over racial justice and police legitimacy. As Vaz highlights, early urban gamblers favored low-stakes games built around combinations of winning numbers. When these games became one of the largest economic engines in nonwhite areas like Harlem and Chicago's south side, police took notice of the illegal business--and took advantage of new opportunities to benefit from graft and other corrupt practices. Eventually, governments found an unusual solution to the problems of illicit gambling and abusive police tactics: coopting the market through legal state-run lotteries, which could offer larger jackpots than any underground game. By tracing this process and the tensions and conflicts that propelled it, Vaz brilliantly calls attention to the fact that, much like education and housing in twentieth-century America, the gambling economy has also been a form of disputed terrain upon which racial power has been expressed, resisted, and reworked.
Автор: Simon Planzer Название: Empirical Views on European Gambling Law and Addiction ISBN: 3319376179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319376172 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book analyses the voluminous case law on gambling of the Court of Justice from an empirical perspective, reviewing the legal situation of gambling services in the EU Single Market, and reporting on the current state of research on gambling addiction.
Описание: Draws upon empirical research amongst young people and problem gamblers in Australia, comparing it with situations in other territories, to shed light on social, recreational gambling and the ways in which this can lead to excessive gambling.
Описание: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book examines the nature, use and scope of online spaces for anti-rape activism, offering a critical commentary on its limitations and potentials.
Автор: Nicoll Название: Gambling in Everyday Life ISBN: 1138777439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138777439 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gambling in Everyday Life aims to produce the first cultural study of gambling in everyday life, to develop critical and empirical methods, and to make cultural studies of gambling accessible to an interdisciplinary and transnational readership by applying Nicoll`s original concept of `finopower.`
Автор: Fausto Martin De Sanctis Название: Football, Gambling, and Money Laundering ISBN: 3319056085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319056081 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4191.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book identifies possible loopholes in existing international legislation for money laundering in sports. It specifically describes proposals to prevent and monitor these illegal gambling activities in soccer.
Автор: Mc Namara, Cormac (trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Название: Gambling, losses and self-esteem ISBN: 0367343096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367343095 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides new insights into contemporary betting shops. Adopting an interactionist approach, it examines the process of `blame-shifting` as collective attempt to repair self-esteem in the wake of financial losses and considers the role of announcements made in betting shops in creating an atmosphere of inclusion.
Автор: Planzer, Simon Название: Empirical views on european gambling law and addiction ISBN: 3319023055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319023052 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 19564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Empirical Views on European Gambling Law and Addiction
Автор: Victor Zheng; Po-san Wan Название: Gambling Dynamism ISBN: 3662525038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783662525036 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This ground-breaking analysis of the astonishing development of the former Portuguese colony of Macao into the world`s leading gambling destination is based on a series of longitudinal indicators not seen in other books on Macao`s gambling industry.
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