Vicious Games: Capitalism and Gambling
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 3214
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- ISBN
- 9780745340395
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book draws on two decades of research on the infrastructure and internal workings of commercial gambling. It merits double-weighting for its breadth of scale and scope, involving in-depth ethnographic research amongst gamblers, bookies, policy makers and regulators nationally and globally. Extensive fieldwork was conducted in sensitive and difficult to penetrate milieu including London betting shops, casinos in Las Vegas, offshore online businesses in Gibraltar and amongst gamblers in the UK, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. The resulting work is the most wide ranging and comprehensive anthropological investigation of the gambling industry to date.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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