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5 results foundAuthor: New South Wales. Law Reform Commission Title: Cheating at Gambling Summary: This Report follows on from our consultation paper, Cheating at Gambling (CP12), in which we identified the inadequacy of existing criminal laws to deal with cheating at gambling. Since the release of CP12, there has been a remarkable number of instances of match-fixing internationally. There has also arisen an acceptance of the need for an urgent and unified response to the problem. Most relevantly, in Australia, the Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports (COMPPS) has released the Report of its Anti-Corruption Working Party; a National Policy on Match-Fixing in Sport was announced following a meeting of the Australian Sports Ministers; and the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General has agreed to establish a Standing Council of Law and Justice working group to develop a proposal and timetable for a nationally consistent approach to criminal offences relating to match-fixing. Sports betting has become a major industry in Australia. Cheating at sports betting, including by match-fixing, undermines the integrity of the sports in question, can involve significant fraud, and has the potential to cause disruption to a significant economic activity. Details: Sydney: NSW Law Reform Commission, 2011. 117p. Source: Internet Resource: Report 130: Accessed September 12, 2011 at: http://www.ipc.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/lrc/ll_lrc.nsf/vwFiles/R130.pdf/$file/R130.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Australia URL: http://www.ipc.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/lrc/ll_lrc.nsf/vwFiles/R130.pdf/$file/R130.pdf Shelf Number: 122719 Keywords: CheatingGamblingIllegal GamblingSports Betting |
Author: Bellringer, Maria Title: Problem Gambling -- Formative Investigation of the Links Between Gambling (Including Problem Gambling) and Crime in New Zealand Summary: Crime (illegal behaviours) constitutes a continuum ranging from undetected, unreported, and unprosecuted crimes through to prosecuted, convicted and sentenced crimes; any of these may be associated with gambling/problem gambling. There may also be behaviours considered marginally illegal, for example welfare beneficiaries obtaining additional benefit and not disclosing that benefit money has been used for gambling, or business owners using business cash for gambling and not declaring cash as income for tax purposes. These behaviours are difficult to detect and even if detected may be considered morally socially unacceptable but not necessarily criminal and thus not reported to police. There may also be other behaviours, for example embezzlement of employer funds or stealing from family that are clearly criminal and may be detected, but are not likely to be reported to save embarrassment of either the victim or the perpetrator, or even to protect the perpetrator. In some instances, these crimes are not readily linked to gambling. Additionally, there are financial crimes to support gambling, situational crimes associated with gambling venues, violence associated with gambling and family/whanau crime associated with gambling. In November 2006, the Gambling and Addictions Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, in collaboration with the Centre for Gambling Studies at the University of Auckland, was commissioned by the Ministry of Health to conduct the research project Problem gambling - Formative investigation of the links between gambling (including problem gambling) and crime in New Zealand. The purpose of this project was to develop a better understanding of the nature of the links between gambling and crime, with particular reference to unreported crime and the nature of the resulting harms experienced by individuals, families/whanau and communities. Details: Auckland, NZ: Gambling and Addictions Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology and Centre for Gambling Studies, University of Auckland, 2009. 124p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 17, 2012 at: http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/2011/Report%20Final%209%20February%202009.pdf?sequence=2 Year: 2009 Country: New Zealand URL: http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/2011/Report%20Final%209%20February%202009.pdf?sequence=2 Shelf Number: 126359 Keywords: Gambling and Crime (New Zealand)Illegal GamblingPathological Gambling |
Author: Strumpf, Koleman D. Title: Illegal Sports Bookmakers Summary: This paper provides an economic analysis of illegal sports bookmaking using detailed records from six bookmakers who operated in the 1990s. These operations are structured like standard firms and utilize incentive contracts to induce appropriate employee behavior. The bookmakers offer prices which closely follow the geographically separated legal market, but larger operations price discriminate based on individual betting patterns. Despite the availability of inexpensive hedging instruments, all operations take on substantial financial risk. This implies the bookmakers cannot be risk-averse and must hold large cash reserves. The risk-adjusted profit rate is lower than in legal financial markets. These results and behaviors are consistent with standard models of economic self-interest. Details: Unpublished paper, 2003. 61p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 23, 2015 at: http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/Bookie4b.pdf Year: 2003 Country: United States URL: http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/Bookie4b.pdf Shelf Number: 135769 Keywords: Economics of Crime Illegal GamblingSports Betting |
Author: Australia. Department of Social Services Title: Review of Illegal Offshore Wagering Report Summary: Across the global gambling market, online games and wagering are the fastest growing market segments over recent years. These sectors of the gambling market are also subject to a range of regulatory restrictions in a number of Australian jurisdictions. Wagering is the fastest growing gambling sector in Australia. Fast growth in a market of this size, particularly where the platforms are largely online, raises concerns about the harmful impacts on our community, especially on the largely young male audience to whom these interactive products are marketed. As operators in these markets are operating outside the regulatory reach of Australian law enforcement and regulators, strategies to mitigate harm are particularly important. A key determinant of the relative size of the legal and illegal market is the ability of the regulatory framework to attract offshore bookmakers operating illegally to move onshore and submit to Australian regulatory requirements. This is in part influenced by a regulatory framework that places legal operators on a competitive footing with the illegal market. Key elements of the regulatory framework that may influence the relative size of the legal and illegal markets include taxation levels, the types of services and product fees permitted or prohibited (such as online in-play wagering on sporting events) and the range and scope of regulatory harm minimisation measures. The importance of appropriate harm minimisation measures to ensure adequate consumer protection is well documented, as is the need to manage the social and economic impacts of both problem gambling and illegal offshore wagering. Australia's online gambling market is subject to a range of regulatory measures that aim to protect our community and industry from potentially harmful gambling activities. Successive governments have acknowledged that enforcement of Australian regulations against illegal offshore online wagering operators is difficult, and previous studies have highlighted the challenges of bringing illegal offshore wagering activities into a regulated onshore environment. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (the Act) is directed at controlling the provision of online gambling services to Australians. Under the Act, it is an offence to provide certain interactive gambling services to consumers located in Australia. This carries a maximum penalty of $360,000 per day for individuals and $1.8 million per day for corporations, which applies to all providers whether they are located in Australia or offshore. On 7 September 2015, the Commonwealth announced a review of the illegal offshore wagering market in Australia (the Review). The Review has involved extensive consultation and engagement with a broad range of community, industry and government stakeholders directed to strengthening enforcement of the Act and ensuring Australians are adequately protected from the impacts of illegal offshore wagering operators. Details: Canberra: Department of Social Services, 2015. 188p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 3, 2016 at: https://www.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/04_2016/review_of_illegal_offshore_wagering_18_december_2015.pdf Year: 2015 Country: Australia URL: https://www.dss.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/04_2016/review_of_illegal_offshore_wagering_18_december_2015.pdf Shelf Number: 138897 Keywords: Financial CrimesGambling and CrimeIllegal GamblingOrganized CrimeSports Gambling |
Author: Vaz, Matthew Title: The Jackpot Mentality: The Growth of Government Lotteries and the Suppression of Illegal Numbers Gambling in Rio de Janeiro and New York City Summary: This dissertation examines social and political conflict over gambling policy in the United States and Brazil from 1960 to the present with a particular focus on New York City and Rio de Janeiro. The study accounts for the process by which illegal numbers gambling in New York and the jogo do bicho in Rio de Janeiro were determined to be the basis for widespread corruption and lawlessness. As policy makers proposed enhanced government lotteries as a solution for the problem of illegal gambling, numerous groups scrambled for position within shifting gambling frameworks. Tens of thousands of persons who had long worked in illegal numbers networks pressed for access to legal gambling jobs, corporate entities partnering with government lotteries pushed to secure monopoly concessions, while many citizens and religious groups opposed any and all forms of gambling legalization. As gambling workers, bettors, clergy, police officers, politicians and corporate lobbyists all struggled over how gambling would be conducted going forward, an intense debate unfolded in both Brazil and the United States with issues relating to police corruption, welfare, public safety, state sovereignty, personal liberty, and distribution of the tax burden all under examination. While there are many comparative elements of this study, it is ultimately transnational in that the narrative histories of gambling policy in Brazil and the United States eventually converge through the gambling technology corporation Gtech, which emerged as a powerhouse in the government lottery sectors of both nations. As the low stakes illegal gambling games of the numbers and the jogo do bicho are suppressed in favor of legal government lotteries, a vast new array of gambling habits are introduced to the gambling public in both Brazil and the United States. Of particular importance to this study is the growth of multimillion-dollar jackpot games offered by governments and their corporate partners. As players leave behind the old games with their reasonable odds and their modest payouts, they take up new games with astronomical odds and obscene jackpots. In the argument of this study, jackpot style gambling has brought the gambling habits of the poor and working classes into accord with contemporary patterns of wealth distribution. Details: New York: Columbia University, 2011. 439p. Source: Internet Resource Dissertation: Accessed May 22, 2019 at: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8B85G4C Year: 2011 Country: International URL: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8B85G4C Shelf Number: 155965 Keywords: Addictive BehaviorBrazilCorruptionGamblingGambling IndustryIllegal GamblingLottery |