Regulation and the management of risk in commercial gambling in Great Britain

Autor:	David Miers
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Commission Public relations Compliance (psychology) Risk model Politics State (polity) Order (exchange) Economics Regulatory agency Ideology business Applied Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	International Gambling Studies. 15:422-434
ISSN:	1479-4276 1445-9795
DOI:	10.1080/14459795.2015.1068352
Popis:	The regulation of commercial gambling in Great Britain is the responsibility of the Gambling Commission, the regulatory agency created by the Gambling Act 2005. This article examines the risk model that it has developed in order to assess operator risks to the Act's licensing objectives. These are to prevent gambling from becoming a source of crime, to ensure that gambling is fair and open, and to protect children and other vulnerable people from being harmed or exploited by gambling. The article discusses four factors that affect the implementation of this model: operator compliance, the regulatory environment, the regulatory toolkit and the Commission's approach to its regulatory responsibilities. Its regulatory ideology sits squarely within the neo-liberal mode of regulation that has been pursued in Great Britain since the 1980s. By reference to political and public disquiet concerning gaming machines, the article analyses the tensions between the state, the regulator, the gambling industry and its con...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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