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9 Asian J. Criminology 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/asjrcrm9 and id is 1 raw text is: Asian Criminology (2014) 9:1-13 DOI 10.1007/s11417-013-9168-0 Economic Crime and Casinos: China's Wager on Macau Henry N. Pontell - Quan Fang - Gilbert Geis Received: 29 December 2012 /Accepted: 15 May 2013 /Published online: 1 September 2013 O Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Abstract Notwithstanding the results of some empirical studies, casinos and gambling are widely considered to be breeding grounds for a range of deviant behavior and criminal offenses. As one writer expressed it, the world of gambling offers a portfolio of anonymous expenditure which allows for money laundering and other illegal activities associated with the legal operation of casinos. This paper examines economic and white-collar criminal activities and case histories of offenses related to Macau's growing casino industry, now the highest revenue generating in the world. A Portuguese colony from 1557 until 1999 when it was returned to China, Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) with its own governing officials operating under the PRC maxim of one country, two systems. The dramatic recent growth of the casino industry in Macau offers a unique opportunity to examine issues of economic crime and law enforcement within the context of the People's Republic of China's recently acquired political and economic stewardship in this SAR. The paper documents white-collar and organized crimes that present new challenges and risks to China now that Macau has become an international marquee. Keywords Gambling - Casinos - Economic Crime - White-Collar Crime - Macau - China Love and marriage, to quote a 1955 song made popular by Frank Sinatra, go together like a horse and carriage with the further lyrical observation that you can't have one without the other. In some regards, the same often can be said of gambling and crime. Gambling is highly regulated or illegal in most parts of the world but attempts to control its operation, much less to eliminate it, rarely show much success, nor, for that matter, are they typically pursued with much dedication. In the United States, for example, office pools focused on the outcome of the football Super Bowl and March Madness, the collegiate basketball championship tournament are pervasive, amounting to millions, and perhaps billions, of dollars. So too are poker games Revised version of a paper presented at the Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November, 2010, and published in Chinese in the Journal of Macau Studies. H. N. Pontell (E) - G. Geis Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine, USA e-mail: pontell@uci.edu Q. Fang School of Law, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, SAR, China 4Z Springer

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