Tourism and crime [[electronic resource] ] : key themes / / edited by David Botterill and Trevor Jones

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460140003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Goodfellow Publishers, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-89715-2; 9786612897153; 1-906884-87-0; 600-00-4073-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BotterillDavid; JonesTrevor
• Disciplina: 364.9
• Soggetti: Crime; Tourism - Safety measures; Tourists - Crimes against; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Introduction: Tourism Studies and Criminology; Part I: Tourists as Victims; 2 Property Crime and Tourists; 3 Violent crime and tourists; 4 Vulnerable Victims; Part II: Tourists as Offenders; 5 Child Sex Tourism: Is extra-territorial legislation the answer?; 6 Flying without Wings: drug tourism and the political economy of pleasure; 7 Blagging Leads and Other Hustles: British street workers in Tenerife's timeshare industry; Part III: Responses to Tourist-related Crime; 8 Cross-border Cooperation in Criminal Investigations; 9 The Preventive Turn in Crime Control and its Relationship with Tourism10 Governing Security in Tourist Spaces; 11 Tourism, Image and Fear of Crime; 12 Dark Tourism and Sites of Crime; 13 Conclusions: Mapping a Research Agenda; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent years have seen growing media and political attention to the issue of tourism and crime in a number of countries. Issues such as drugs tourism, sex tourism & alcohol-related crime and disorder have highlighted crimes and rule-breaking by tourists

Gambling in America : costs and benefits / / Earl L. Grinols [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457902503321
• Autore: Grinols Earl L. <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-107-14804-9; 1-280-43756-1; 0-511-16551-X; 0-511-16629-X; 0-511-16436-X; 0-511-31302-0; 0-511-51091-8; 0-511-16516-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 338.4/7795
• Soggetti: Gambling - United States; Gambling - Economic aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Considerations -- Agents and incentives -- Economic development -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Social benefits -- Social costs -- The present and the future -- [APPENDIX] A: Cost benefit to the locality: a scenario -- Glossary.
• Sommario/riassunto: Gambling in America carefully breaks ground by developing analytical tools to assess the benefits and costs of the economic and social changes introduced by casino gambling in monetary terms, linking them to individual households' utility and well-being. Since casinos are associated with unintended and often negative economic consequences, these factors are incorporated into the discussion. The book also shows how amenity benefits - for casinos, the benefit to consumers of closer proximity - enter the evaluation. Other topics include agent incentives and public decision making, conceptual clarifications about economic development, cost-benefit analysis, and ; net export multiplier models. Professor Grinols finds that, in considering all relevant factors, the social costs of casino gambling outweigh their social benefits.