| NCJ Number: |
159458  |
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| Title: |
Excessive Gambling (From Drugs and Drug Use in Society, P 58-72, 1994, Ross Coomber, ed. - See NCJ 159452) |
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| Author(s): |
J Orford |
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| Date Published: |
1994 |
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| Page Count: |
15 |
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| Sponsoring Agency: |
Greenwich University Press
Kent, DA1 1PF, England |
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| Sale Source: |
Greenwich University Press
Unit 42, Dartford Trade Park
Hawley Road
Kent, DA1 1PF,
United Kingdom |
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| Type: |
Issue Overview |
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| Language: |
English |
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| Country: |
United Kingdom |
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| Annotation: |
This paper examines the parallels between excessive gambling and excessive drinking and describes some attempts to control gambling activities. |
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| Abstract: |
The author begins with an overview of the many nations from ancient to modern times which have been accused of fostering widespread gambling of a harmful kind and looks at persons both historical and contemporary who allegedly gambled to excess. The difference between moderate and immoderate gambling is often not clearly separated by writers on the subject. However, characteristics of the excessive gambler may include the following characteristics: (1) gambling is habitual; (2) gambling absorbs and precludes all other interests; and (3) the gambler cannot stop when winning. As part of the effort to control gambling, the British Gaming Board argues that new recruits to gambling can be limited by avoiding the artificial stimulation of demand, and has succeeded in limiting the numbers and locations of gaming clubs. Gambling presents society with a problem very similar to that presented by the availability of alcohol: how to arrive at a balanced response which helps to minimize the dangers of immoderate use while at the same time detracting as little as possible from the enjoyment associated with the moderate use by the majority of citizens. Table (a typical questionnaire for self-diagnosis of compulsive gambling) |
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| Main Term(s): |
Criminology |
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| Index Term(s): |
Alcohol abuse; Alcoholic beverage consumption; Compulsive gamblers; Gambling; Gambling control; Public gambling; United Kingdom (UK) |
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