This research study explores the relationship between accessibility and self-regulation in problem gambling behaviours.

This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle ...

The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, ...

Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.

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.

... access to those under the age of 18 (Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety, 2010). Although it is suggested that the current situation is greatly improved, many verification procedures are ... Online Gambling and Crime.

... gambling addiction amongst adults seems to be more of a risk than children wishing to access gambling sites . During the seven years that the Commission has been regulating the industry , it has not had any complaints from parents about ...

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.