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Forsström, David, and Jenny Cisneros Örnberg. "Responsible gambling in practice: A case study of views and practices of Swedish oriented gambling companies." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 36, no. 2 (2018): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072518802492.
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The Swedish gambling market faces a major change in legislation that will allow foreign-based companies to apply for a gambling licence in Sweden. A key element in the new legislation are consumer protection measures. The Swedish gambling market is currently divided between licensed companies and non-Swedish-based companies providing online gambling services without a licence in Sweden. How these companies view their responsibility for preventing gambling-related harm and how prepared they are for the new regulations are important questions regarding the new Swedish gambling market. Aims: To compare and analyse the views and practices on problem gambling and responsible gambling (RG) measures among licensed and unlicensed gambling companies on the Swedish market. Design/Methods/Data: Eleven semi-structured interviews were carried out with responsible gambling managers who are members of either of the two Swedish industry associations. Content analysis was used to analyse the interviews. Results: Non-licensed companies have implemented behaviour tracking and monitoring of gamblers in a more extensive way than licensed companies. Both the licensed and the unlicensed companies conceptualise problem gambling in a similar manner and rely on informed choice in preventing gamblers from developing problems, seemingly arguing that offering responsible gambling measures on their website is enough. Conclusions: There are several similarities in how the two types of companies define problem gambling and responsible gambling. Both groups lack a critical perspective when discussing RG. There is a need for companies not only to provide RG measures, but to take an active role in preventing harm among gamblers. Future research should focus on exploring how companies work with RG after the legislative change.
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Blaszczynski, Alexander. "Responsible gambling:The need for collaborative government, industry, community and consumer involvement." SUCHT 64, no. 5-6 (2018): 307–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000564.
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Abstract. Background: Tensions exist with various stakeholders facing competing interests in providing legal land-based and online regulated gambling products. Threats to revenue/taxation occur in response to harm minimisation and responsible gambling policies. Setting aside the concept of total prohibition, the objectives of responsible gambling are to encourage and/or restrict an individual’s gambling expenditure in terms of money and time to personally affordable limits. Stakeholder responsibilities: Governments craft the gambling environment through legislation, monitor compliance with regulatory requirements, and receive taxation revenue as a proportion of expenditure. Industry operators on the other hand, compete across market sectors through marketing and advertising, and through the development of commercially innovative products, reaping substantial financial rewards. Concurrently, governments are driven to respond to community pressures to minimize the range of negative gambling-related social, personal and economic harms and costs. Industry operators are exposed to the same pressures but additionally overlaid with the self-interest of avoiding the imposition of more stringent restrictive policies. Cooperation of stakeholders: The resulting tension between taxation revenue and profit making, harm minimization, and social impacts creates a climate of conflict between all involved parties. Data-driven policies become compromised by unsubstantiated claims of, and counter claims against, the nature and extent of gambling-related harms, effectiveness of policy strategies, with allegations of bias and influence associated with researchers supported by industry and government research funding sources. Conclusion: To effectively advance policies, it is argued that it is imperative that all parties collaborate in a cooperative manner to achieve the objectives of responsible gambling and harm minimization. This extends to and includes more transparent funding for researchers from both government and industry. Continued reliance on data collected from analogue populations or volunteers participating in simulated gambling tasks will not provide data capable of valid and reliable extrapolation to real gamblers in real venues risking their own funds. Failure to adhere to principles of corporate responsibility and consumer protection by both governments and industry will challenge the social licence to offer gambling products. Appropriate and transparent safeguards learnt from the tobacco and alcohol field, it is argued, can guide the conduct of gambling research.
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Nikkinen, Janne. "Is there a need for personal gambling licences?" Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 36, no. 2 (2019): 108–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072518811029.
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Licensing is currently the most popular option among regulators for controlling gambling operations. However, approximately 20% of operators are still public monopolies. Many forms of gambling (especially lotteries) are government operated even in countries with a licensing system. This creates an inherent conflict of interest, given that government is supposed to protect the well-being of its citizenry and to reap the benefits of gambling at the same time. At least in the gambling monopoly, however, addressing the unavoidable harm that results from gambling should be a priority. Industry self-regulation and reliance on “responsible gambling” rely too much on individuals to control their own gambling. It is suggested in this contribution that it is possible to provide more comprehensive consumer protection, recognising both the duty of governments to take care of their own citizens and the fact that industry self-regulation is not enough. Pre-commitment cards have been tested in various contexts, and have shown promise in terms of providing tools for individuals to restrict their own gambling. However, given the known shortcomings such as allowing the use of other cards that are not one’s own, and other venues, it is clear that in themselves they do not guarantee effective prevention. Personal licensing is therefore explored as a move forward in this literature-based discussion. Although the system may be applicable to other contexts, the focus is on the Nordic countries. Given that the underlying justification for gambling monopolies is to control gambling-related harm, in the cases of Finland and Norway licensing could be combined with loyalty cards introduced by monopoly operators. This would provide a feasible alternative to current practices of responsible gambling.
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Bite, Kitija. "Pašvaldības rīcības brīvība azartspēļu organizēšanas atļaujas izsniegšanā: iedzīvotāju un komersanta interešu balanss." SOCRATES. Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Juridiskās fakultātes elektroniskais juridisko zinātnisko rakstu žurnāls / SOCRATES. Rīga Stradiņš University Faculty of Law Electronic Scientific Journal of Law 1, no. 7 (2017): 78–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.25143/socr.07.2017.1.78-95.
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Latvijā ir attīstīts azartspēļu bizness. Minētās jomas attīstībā liela nozīme ir pašvaldībām, kuras izsniedz licences azartspēļu organizēšanai un jaunu spēļu zāļu atvēršanai. K. Bite savā rakstā analizē iedzīvotāju un komersantu interešu attiecības, to sabalansētību. In Latvia, the gambling business is well developed. In the development of this field the local governments play a significant role, they issue licences to organisation of gambling games and opening of new gambling halls. K. Bite in the article analyses the relationship between the population and businessmen interests and their balancing.
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Marionneau, Virve, Michael Egerer, and Janne Nikkinen. "How Do State Gambling Monopolies Affect Levels of Gambling Harm?" Current Addiction Reports 8, no. 2 (2021): 225–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40429-021-00370-y.
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Abstract Purpose of Review This systematic literature review evaluates the potential of gambling monopolies to affect gambling harms. It compares the occurrence of gambling harms in jurisdictions with gambling monopolies to jurisdictions with license-based regimes. Recent Findings The review identified 21 publications concerning three gambling-related harm indicators: problem gambling prevalence, total consumption, and the appearance of conflicts of interest. Due to the dearth of literature, concept papers and older publications were also included. Summary Results show that there is a paucity of empirical research on the effectiveness of different regulatory regimes in affecting gambling harms. Available research demonstrates that monopolistic regimes appear to perform somewhat better in terms of problem gambling prevalence and total consumption but may also be more prone to conflicts of interest than license-based regimes. Monopolistic configurations also differ between themselves, and issues such as availability, accessibility, product range, scope of preventive work, monitoring, as well as the recognition of the public health approach may better predict the levels of harm in society than the existence of a monopoly.
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Gainsbury, Sally M., Alex MT Russell, Nerilee Hing, and Alex Blaszczynski. "Consumer engagement with and perceptions of offshore online gambling sites." New Media & Society 20, no. 8 (2017): 2990–3010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444817738783.
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Many jurisdictions have legalized and licensed online gambling sites. Nonetheless, a notable proportion of the online gambling market operates offshore. Offshore sites pose risks for consumers in terms of unsafe and disreputable practices, compete with domestically licensed sites and do not participate in the economies in which they operate. This study aimed to explore the extent to which Australian online gamblers use offshore as compared to domestic gambling sites, consumer attitudes and gambling-related harms. Participants ( N = 3199) completed an online survey assessing gambling behaviour, reasons for choosing sites, awareness of and impact of online gambling legislation, and problem gambling. Results show that 25.8% of online gamblers used offshore sites, and that these were more involved gamblers overall than domestic gamblers, and had greater problem gambling severity. Most online gamblers preferred domestic sites, indicating that regulation of online gambling with associated consumer protection measures may benefit those who wish to gamble online.
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Marionneau, Virve, and Matilda Hellman. "What is special about gambling? A comparison of public discourse on Finnish state monopolies in rail traffic, gambling, and alcohol." Critical Gambling Studies 1, no. 1 (2020): 40–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/cgs43.
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Finland has one of the last fully monopolistic gambling sectors in Europe. Unlike in most Western European countries, the monopoly is also consolidated and enjoys a wide support as opposed to license-based competition. This paper analyses whether this preference for monopoly provision is due to the particularities of the Finnish society or rather to those of the Finnish gambling sector. We do this by comparing public discourses in media texts (N=143) from 2014 to 2017 regarding monopolies operating in alcohol retail, rail traffic and gambling sectors. The results show that gambling appears to be special even in the Finnish national context. While the Finnish alcohol retail and railroad traffic markets have been liberalised during the study period, the gambling monopoly has been concurrently strengthened despite similar political and international pressures towards dismantling. The discussion suggests that the differing outcomes reflect the varying positions of monopolies, their stakeholders and the justifications put forward. Intertwined stakeholder interests in the gambling sector appear to amplify consensus politics and set gambling apart from the other cases.
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Thorne, Hannah Briony, Matthew Justus Rockloff, Sally Anne Ferguson, Grace Elizabeth Vincent, and Matthew Browne. "Gambling Problems Are Associated with Alcohol Misuse and Insomnia: Results from a Representative National Telephone Survey." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13 (2021): 6683. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18136683.
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Gambling has significant costs to the community, with a health burden similar in scale to major depression. To reduce its impact, it is necessary to understand factors that may exacerbate harm from gambling. The gambling environment of late-night licensed venues and 24/7 online gambling has the potential to negatively impact sleep and increase alcohol consumption. This study explored gambling, alcohol, and sleep problems to understand whether there is a relationship between these three factors. Telephone interviews were conducted with a representative sample of Australian adults (n = 3760) combined across three waves of the National Social Survey. Participants completed screening measures for at-risk gambling, at-risk alcohol consumption, insomnia (2015 wave only), and sleep quality. There were small but significant positive correlations between problem gambling and alcohol misuse, problem gambling and insomnia, and problem gambling and poor sleep quality. A regression model showed that gambling problems and alcohol misuse were significant independent predictors of insomnia. A separate regression showed gambling problems (and not alcohol misuse) were a significant predictor of poor sleep quality, but only in one survey wave. Findings suggest that gambling, alcohol, and sleep problems are related within persons. Further research should examine the mechanisms through which this relationship exists.
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Makarenko, Tamara, Alexander Smirnov, Andrey Santashov, Aleksei Mironov, and Vasily Nekrasov. "On the Differentiation of Responsibility for the Organization of Binary Options Using “Exchange Terminals” in the Context of Preventing Underage Crime and Gambling." Всероссийский криминологический журнал 12, no. 6 (2018): 856–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2500-4255.2018.12(6).856-864.
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The article discusses the problem of excessive interest of minors in computer games, the development of a game addiction (gambling), which could trigger criminal activities. The authors examine various approaches to the issues of legal regulation of the organization of «binary options» through «exchange terminals». They highlight that Russian lawmakers do not have a definite position regarding this issue while legal publications contain contradicting suggestions. The authors believe that it is reasonable to use foreign experience, where «exchange terminals» in organizing binary options are viewed as equipment for gambling, this experience could also be used in determining liability for illegal gambling. They pay special attention to the problem of involving minors in gambling through simulators of gambling machines. It is stressed that modern Russian criminal and other legislation does not correspond to the current criminological situation and does not contribute to the effective counteraction of the illegal organization of gambling, and especially of involving minors into it. That is why it is necessary to impose criminal responsibility for the illegal production of gambling equipment, for its modification, storage, transportation, selling out of monetary or any other personal interest, without a special permit (license) as well as for illegal organization of gambling using gambling simulators («exchange terminals»), which cause serious harm to man and citizen, to the interests of the society and the state. Besides, to ensure a differentiation of such responsibility, it is necessary to include such an indicium of this offense that would lead to a stricter punishment for more socially dangerous consequences of the above-mentioned actions manifested in harming the health of juveniles or involving them in unlawful activities. To find a complex solution of this problem, it is also necessary to address the issue of establishing administrative responsibility for participation in gambling outside the gambling zone, including online gambling.
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Chan, Sao U., and Luis Miguel Dos Santos. "Probable Pathological Gambling Behaviors in Macau: Social Cognitive Theory Approach." Journal of Social Science Studies 6, no. 1 (2018): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jsss.v6i1.12844.
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Probable pathological gambling is one of the significant social issues after the release of the exclusive and monopoly system of gambling licenses from one owner to three casino operating concessions and eventually six sub-concessions in Macau. As a result, some residents in Macau had addicted to gambling behaviors and eventually became probable pathological gamblers. In fact, why these individuals become probable pathological gamblers and how did they become probable pathological gamblers should be identified to enhance the current social policy and regulations to assist and provide support to these people. This study employed the Social Cognitive Theory to explore the lived experiences and opinions from three ex-probable pathological gambling people in Macau. The result of this study aimed to provide and attract the attention of the social welfare department, policy makers, social workers and counselors in the field of gambling addiction.