Routledge International Handbook of Internet Gambling

Robert Williams is a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta and also a Coordinator for the Alberta Gambling Research Institute. Dr. Williams teaches courses on gambling and provides frequent consultation to government, industry, the media, and public interest groups. He is one of the world’s best funded gambling researchers and a leading authority in the socioeconomic impacts of gambling, Internet gambling, prevention of problem gambling, the proportion of gambling revenue deriving from problem gamblers, the prevalence and nature of gambling in Aboriginal communities, the etiology of problem gambling, and best practices in the population assessment of gambling and problem gambling. Robert Wood is an associate professor of Sociology, and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, at the University of Lethbridge. Over the past decade, Dr. Wood has been involved in a number of large scale research projects, dealing with various socio-cultural aspects of problem gambling. He is known particularly for his studies on Internet gambling, the link between government gambling revenue and problem gamblers, and the prevention of problem gambling among teens. Jonathan Parke is a senior lecturer at Salford Business School, University of Salford. Dr Parke has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, government reports and other publications and has given over 40 conference papers and talks regarding internet gambling, poker-playing, electronic gaming machines and gambling-related risk.

Part 1: Introduction

1. History, Current Worldwide Situation, and Concerns with Internet Gambling Robert Williams, Robert Wood and Jonathan ParkePart 2: Commercial/Business Aspects 2. Online Gambling: An Economics Perspective David Forrest 3. The Internet Gambling Industry Lorien Pilling and Warwick Bartlett 4. Business Models for Online Gambling by Melody Morgan-Busher 5. Regulation and Reputation: The Gibraltar Approach Natalia Zborowska, Sytze Kingma and Phill BrearPart 3: Major Research Studies of Internet Gamblers 6. The Casino City Study: A Large Scale International Study of Online Gamblers Robert Wood and Robert Williams 7. Internet Poker in Sweden in 2007 Jakob Jonsson 8. The eCOGRA Global Online Gambler Report Jonathan Parke, Jane L. Rigbye, Adrian J. Parke and Leighton Vaughan-Williams 9. The bwin.party Division on Addictions Research Collaborative: Challenges for the Normal Science of Internet Gambling Debi LaPlante, Sarah Nelson, Richard Labrie and Howard ShafferPart 4: Clinical Aspects 10. Online Gambling among Youth: Cause for Concern? Mark Griffiths, Jeffrey Derevensky and Jonathan Parke 11. The Relationship between Internet Gambling and Problem Gambling Robert Wood, Robert Williams and Jonathan Parke 12. Investigating the Heterogeneity of Problem Gambling Symptoms in Internet Gamblers Joanne Lloyd, Helen Doll, Keith Hawton, William H. Dutton, John Geddes, Guy Goodwin and Robert D. Rogers 13. Internet Gambling, Player Protection, and Social Responsibility Mark Griffiths 14. Online Clinical Support for People with Gambling Problems Sally Gainsbury and Richard WoodPart 5: Legal and Policy Issues 15. Internet Gambling Law I. Nelson Rose 16. Internet Gambling Policy in Europe George Häberling 17. The Only Thing is Uncertainty? Internet Gambling in the United States 1961-2011 Bo Bernhard and Andrew Montgomery 18. Internet Gambling and the Kahnawà:ke First Nation Yale Belanger 19. Internet Gambling and Online Crime John McMullan and Aunshul Rege 20. Policy Options for Internet Gambling Robert Williams, Robert Wood and Jonathan Parke