Download or read book The Social Cost of Gambling to Victoria written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study assesses the social costs associated with gambling in Victoria in financial terms. After conducting a systematic and targeted review of prior attempts to quantify the cost of gambling, the study estimates the costs in 2014-15 terms, with reference to financial, emotional and psychological impacts on gamblers and their families; relationships and family; crime and the justice system; productivity loss and work impacts; and costs to the Victorian Government. Unlike many previous studies, this study also includes low-risk and moderate-risk gamblers, not just problem gamblers. The findings indicate that the major components of the cost of gambling are borne by gamblers themselves and those around them. Of the estimated $7 billion in costs, $2.2 billion concerns family and relationship problems, $1.6 billion concerns emotional and psychological issues, and $1.3 billion concerns financial losses.
Download or read book Setting Limits written by Pekka Sulkunen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities to its customers, and is a significant way of collecting money from players to distribute to companies, state budgets, and other beneficiaries. Many of these are civil society organizations, using the money for producing services in sports, culture, social work, and health care. However, gambling can also develop into pathological behaviour. Using a public interest framework, this book discusses the policies that will best serve the public good and minimize individual and collective harms. After describing the historical context of the gambling and the current global burden of the activity, available methods of regulating the industry are evaluated using the available scientific evidence. By analysing the effectiveness of gambling policies and their alignment with the public interest, the epidemiological obstacles to successful regulation are considered in detail. There is good evidence for the effectiveness of restrictions on availability and access, but preventing gambling-related harm is not possible without limiting the overall volume of the activity, and hence the profits for the gambling industry and governments. Taking an international approach, this book delivers a comprehensive review of the epidemiological evidence documenting the harmful effects of gambling on individuals, communities, and societies. Essential reading for policymakers, social and behavioural scientists in gambling research, and public health researchers, Setting Limits examines a global view of an emerging epidemic of gambling problems.
Download or read book Harm Reduction for Gambling written by Henrietta Bowden-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume aims to facilitate the evolution of the new public health approach towards gambling. Bringing together the work of international experts, it gives a current overview of the field, highlighting the need for a coordinated framework of prevention and harm reduction measures to replace current "player protection" measures. Chapters begin by exploring the impact of problem gambling, looking at its effects on several levels, ranging from the individual to the family and society. Subsequently an overview of prevention and harm reduction models is presented, bringing the reader to an in-depth understanding of what a public health approach to gambling would entail. Later chapters focus on potential challenges to monitoring and evaluation, inviting the reader to envisage possible barriers towards implementation and ways of overcoming these. The book concludes with recommendations on how to take a harm reduction approach, from a political and human rights perspective. This work gives a rare synopsis of the present-day issues when considering the implementation of a harm reduction strategy for gambling. Recent work by key professionals is presented in order to encourage further developments in this ever-changing domain. Such issues will be relevant to all those with an interest in the field of problem gambling, from clinicians, students and healthcare professionals, to politicians.
Download or read book Counting the Cost written by Victoria. Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chopsticks and Gambling written by Desmond Lam and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese are known throughout the world as avid gamblers with a long history of participation in games of chance. Historians have documented wagering on such games as far back as the early Chinese dynasties. Despite measures by ancient Chinese rulers to contain gambling, it proliferated, and Chinese games have evolved and multiplied since then. Desmond Lam provides a unique look into the little-known world of Chinese gambling from historical, cultural, psychological, and social perspectives. Chinese gamblers regularly patronize casinos in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The recent expansion of gambling in East Asia has attracted much global media attention. Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is now legal, easily surpasses Las Vegas as the world’s largest casino gaming market. Each year, Chinese from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan account for almost 90 percent of visitors to Macau. The expansion of the Chinese gambling industry has brought about much harm to Chinese communities, despite all of the development it has also stimulated. This book is the first to examine the beliefs, motivations, attitudes, and behaviors of Chinese gamblers, and will be of interest to students of history and sociology, as well as those studying the history and culture of China.
Download or read book The Roots of Modern Social Cost of Gambling Estimates written by Douglas M. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We discuss some critical issues in social cost of gambling methodologies which suggest that many social cost estimates are arbitrary. Rather than using monetary estimates of costs and benefits, we argue policy-makers should focus on fundamental issues: consumer sovereignty, property rights and the role of government in free societies.
Download or read book Economic Aspects of Gambling Regulation written by Tom Coryn and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il libro riporta i contributi presentati nel Colloquio internazionale sugli aspetti economici della giurisdizione sul gioco, con riferimento ad Europa e Stati Uniti (Università di Tilburg, 2005). Sono analizzate le attuali prospettive sul tema, in particolare quelle di legislatori, accademici ed operatori.
Download or read book Vice and the Victorians written by Mike Huggins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a richer and more nuanced understanding of a term that, despite its vital importance to the Victorians, has thus far lacked a clear definition. Each chapter explores a different facet of vice. Firstly, the book seeks to define exactly what vice meant to the Victorians, exploring how the language of vice was used as a tool to beat down opposition and dissent. It considers the cultural geography and spatial dimensions of vice in the public and private spheres, before moving on to look at specific vices: the unholy trinity of drink, sex and gambling. Finally, it shifts from vice to virtue and the efforts of moral reformers, and reassesses the relationship between vice and respectability in Victorian life. In his lively and engaging discussion, Mike Huggins draws on a range of theory and exploits a wide variety of texts and representations from the periodical press, parliamentary reports and Acts, novels, obscene publications, paintings and posters, newspapers, sermons, pamphlets and investigative works. This will be an illuminating text for undergraduates studying Victorian Britain as well as anyone wishing to gain a more nuanced understanding of Victorian society.
Download or read book Pathways to Excessive Gambling written by Charlotte Fabiansson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathways to Excessive Gambling draws upon extensive 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. It highlights the relationship between the local community, sports clubs, governments, social recreation, economy and regulation of gambling venues, identifying the social indicators that typify situations which commonly lead to excessive gambling. By developing a 'society-based' perspective, this volume recognizes problem gambling as an issue for the whole society rather than just the individual, focusing on the availability of gambling and identifying its capacity, as a construct, to encourage or restrict the behaviour of the individual. As such, this book will be of significance to social scientists with interests in gambling, young people, social problems, and the sociology of leisure and culture.
Download or read book Gambling in Victoria written by Saint Francis' Church (Melbourne, Vic.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Limits of Recreation written by R. Keith Schwer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harm Reduction for Gambling written by Henrietta Bowden-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work gives a rare synopsis of the present-day issues related to harm reduction for gambling. Recent work by key professionals is presented, to encourage further developments in the domain, as it continues to evolve.
Download or read book The Social Impact of Gambling in South Africa written by Stephen P. Rule and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of the National Gambling Act (no 33 of 1996) the legislative environment with regards to gambling changed dramatically.
Download or read book Gambling in America written by Earl L. Grinols and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambling in America carefully breaks ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and often negative economic consequences, these factors are incorporated into the discussion. The book also shows how amenity benefits - for casinos, the benefit to consumers of closer proximity - enter the evaluation. Other topics include agent incentives and public decision making, conceptual clarifications about economic development, cost-benefit analysis, and net export multiplier models. Professor Grinols finds that, in considering all relevant factors, the social costs of casino gambling outweigh their social benefits.
Download or read book The Victorian Gambling Study written by Rosa Billi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the final findings of the Victorian Gambling Study, a longitudinal analysis examining gambling behaviour and its impact on health. It was conducted in Victoria over a period of four years, from 2008 to 2012, with a baseline sample of 15,000 adults. The report summarises findings and learnings from all waves of the study, regarding gambling participation and prevalence, characteristics of at-risk and problem gamblers, health and wellbeing, and pathways and predictors of problem and high-risk gambling.
Download or read book The Poker Machine State written by James Doughney and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the state of gambling in Victoria. Poker machines are by far the biggest single means of gambling in the State. Examines the ethical and political issues surrounding the 'pokies', as well as the impact the gambling industry has on the community and the Government's responsibilities towards the citizens. Includes appendix and references. Published in both paperback and PDF formats. Author is Senior Researcher in the Workplace Studies Centre at Victoria University.
Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews The Metropolitan Region of Melbourne Australia 2003 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OECD's comprehensive territorial review of Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, most important container port, and leading cultural and educational centre.
