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Chargement... Last Bets: A True Story of Gambling, Morality and the Law (édition 2014)par Michaela McGuire (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I had high hopes for this book, feeling the same mix of ambivalence and distaste for gambling as McGuire and hoping for something insightful and fresh on the topic from her book. The story is set up around the manslaughter trial of bouncers from Crown Casino, in a very similar way to the way that Anna Krien's Night Games uses the rape trial of a footballer to explore sex and gender issues in Australian sport. Unfortunately, McGuire's book didn't really take the broader story very far, instead getting hung up mostly on the trial (with a slightly out of place but interesting interview with David Walsh to break things up). As a story of a tragic death and troubling legal process the book works well, but as an examination of gambling, morality, regulation and law in Australia it falls a bit short. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
On a Sunday evening in July 2011, 40-year-old Anthony Dunning was pinned to the floor of Melbourne's Crown casino by security staff. Four days later, he died in the intensive care unit of the Alfred Hospital. The incident was reported to the police by two friends who were with Dunning on the night—not by Crown casino. Later that week, a spokesperson for the police said that even though Crown had no legal requirement to report such incidents, 'they probably had a moral obligation' to do so. Crown casino said that its employees were just doing their job. Three months later, a young security guard was charged with manslaughter. Michaela McGuire follows the trial, trying to make sense of the gap between ethics and the law. She speaks to problem gamblers and psychologists, a casino priest and David Walsh, Australia's most notorious gambler. Last Betsis true crime writing at its best—disturbing, gripping, and unnerving. A must-read for gamblers, the gambling industry, law makers and everyone who cares. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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