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It has been claimed that the relentless expansion of the Internet is in the process of radically transforming the spheres of work, consumption, leisure and politics (Castells, 2002). Part of ‘leisure’ is the use of the Internet as a gambling medium. However, what is often referred to as cyberspace—the realm of computerised interaction—seems to offer a vast range of potentially ‘new’ criminal acts (Jar, 2006).
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© 2013 Graham Brooks, Azeem Aleem and Mark Button
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Brooks, G., Aleem, A., Button, M. (2013). Internet Fraud, Corruption and Sport. In: Fraud, Corruption and Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137290717_5
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