Global Gambling: Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations - Routledge Advances in Criminology by Sytze F. Kingma Details
While most of the research has studied the legal, economic, and psychological aspects of gambling, this innovative group offers a wide range of cultural perspectives on gambling organizations. Using both…
While most of the research has studied the legal, economic, and psychological aspects of gambling, this innovative group offers a wide range of cultural perspectives on gambling organizations. Using both historical and current case studies from around the world, authors seriously consider rituals, symbols, meanings, values, legitimacy, relationships (formal and informal), spaces and artifacts involved in the (re) production of gambling organizations. The role of contributors is not limited to studying the global impact of commercial gambling, but also shows how the local characteristics of gambling organizations remain uniqueThis volume will be of interest to criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and all gambling scientists.
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