Offshore Internet Gambling and the World Trade Organization: Is it Criminal Behavior or a Commodity?

IF 0.7 Q4 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
H. Pontell, G. Geis, Gregory C. Brown
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Abstract

Internet gambling possesses an array of attractive attributes. For one thing, there is no necessity to leave home, with the associated outlay for lodging and meals, and the expenditure for transportation costs. For another, gambling at home avoids the noise and confusion of crowded confines, the distractions of seductive servers, the windowless gaming rooms, with no wall clocks to make customers aware of the time. Internet gambling is an industry that is growing exponentially and its perception as criminal is a matter of intense debate. On the transnational scene it has emerged as a public policy issue of significant ideological interest and of massive financial importance. This paper traces the development of the WTO case and attempts at its resolution and also offers a view of what is regarded as the most sensible, and probably the inevitable path that the trajectory of Internet gambling should and will take.
离岸网络赌博与世界贸易组织:是犯罪行为还是商品?
网络赌博具有一系列吸引人的特点。一方面,没有必要离开家,有住宿、吃饭和交通费用的相关支出。另一方面,在家赌博避免了拥挤的房间里的噪音和混乱,避免了诱人的服务器的干扰,避免了没有窗户的游戏室,也避免了没有挂钟让顾客知道时间的情况。互联网赌博是一个呈指数增长的行业,其被视为犯罪是一个激烈辩论的问题。在跨国舞台上,它已成为一个具有重大意识形态利益和巨大金融重要性的公共政策问题。本文追溯了世贸组织案件的发展,并试图解决它,也提供了一个观点,被认为是最明智的,可能是不可避免的路径,互联网赌博的轨迹应该和将采取。
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CiteScore
2.60
自引率
40.00%
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0
审稿时长
16 weeks
期刊介绍: International Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC) is a peer reviewed online (open access) interdisciplinary journal published biannually and devoted to the study of cyber crime, cyber criminal behavior, cyber victims, cyber laws and cyber policy. IJCC is an unique Diamond open access, not for profit international journal, where the author(s) need not pay article processing charges / page charges and it is totally free for both the authors and the audience. IJCC will focus on all aspects of cyber/computer crime: Forms of Cyber Crime, Impact of cyber crimes in the real world, Policing Cyber space, International Perspectives of Cyber Crime, Developing cyber safety policy, Cyber Victims, Cyber Psychopathology, Geographical aspects of Cyber crime, Cyber offender behavior, cyber crime law, Cyber Pornography, Privacy & Anonymity on the Net, Internet Fraud and Identity Theft, Mobile Phone Safety, Human Factor of Cyber Crime and Cyber Security and Policy issues, Online Gambling, Copyright and Intellectual property Law. As the discipline of Cyber Criminology approaches the future, facing the dire need to document the literature in this rapidly changing area has become more important than ever before. The IJCC will be a nodal centre to develop and disseminate the knowledge of cyber crimes primarily from a social science perspective to the academic and lay world. The journal publishes theoretical, methodological, and applied papers, as well as book reviews. We do not publish highly technical cyber forensics / digital forensics papers and papers of descriptive / overview nature.
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