Virginia Commonwealth University
923 West Franklin Street / P.O. Box 842028
Richmond, VA 23284-2028
ph: 804-827-0844
fax: 804-827-1275
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Below are highlights of my work on gambling and crime, including the impact of casino gambling on street crime,
white collar crime, and law enforcement.
Article: "Illegal Gambling & Organized Crime: An Analysis of Federal Convictions." Trends in Organized Crime, vol. DOI 10.1007/s12117-017-9302-y (2018).
Book chapter: "Creating Legal versus Illegal Gambling Businesses: How Proper Government Regulation Makes a Difference" in Dual Markets - Comparative Approaches for Regulation, E. Savona, M. Kleiman, and F. Calderoni, eds. (Springer, 2018).
Quoted in: Illegal Gambling Businesses - There have been numerous documented cases in which providers of illegal sports betting, black market machines, Internet sweepstakes cafés and illegal online betting have cheated customers on payouts and cheated the United States government by not paying taxes on profits. Furthermore, these profits have been found to support organized crime activity, such as money laundering and loan-sharking. - See more at Vegasseven at:http://vegasseven.com/2015/08/12/nations-illegal-gambling-problem-means-las-vegas/
Presentation: "Illegal Gambling and Criminal Networks." Gaming Experts Forum. American Gaming Association. Washington, D.C. July, 2015.
Article: "White Collar Crimes & Casino Gambling: Looking for Empirical Links to Forgery, Embezzlement, and Fraud." Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 49 (June, 2008).
Article: "The Effect of Casino Gambling on Crime." Federal Probation Quarterly, vol. 48 (June, 1985).
(Reprinted in Gambling: Jackpot or Bad Bet? G. Reith, ed. (Prometheus Books, 2003).
Article: “Do Casinos Attract Criminals? A Study at the Canadian-U.S. Border,” (with F. Piscitelli) Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 16 (November, 2000).
Monograph: Casino Gambling and White-Collar Crime: An Examination of the Empirical Evidence. (Washington, D.C.: American Gaming Association, 1999).
Chapter: “Predicting the Impact of Casino Gambling on Crime and Law Enforcement,” in W.R. Eadington and J.A. Cornelius, eds. Gambling: Public Policies and the Social Sciences. (University of Nevada Press, 1997).
Chapter: "Casino Gambling and Organized Crime: More Than Reshuffling the Deck." In J. Albanese, ed. Contemporary Issues in Organized Crime (Willow Tree Press, 1995).
Virginia Commonwealth University
923 West Franklin Street / P.O. Box 842028
Richmond, VA 23284-2028
ph: 804-827-0844
fax: 804-827-1275
justicew