From the recent White Paper, licensing authorities across the UK highlighted the need for further powers to effectively manage gambling premising especially in deprived communities in order to reduce gambling related harms. Therefore, critical analysis is required to develop appropriate policies to adequately manage harms linked to presence of betting shops. As such this project seeks to understand gambling related harm by investigating the relationship between betting shops and crime across different geographies in England. It will focus on different scales and compare different geographies including local authorities, urban and rural divide, seaside localities, hinterlands, old industrial and new towns.

The project lead is Dr Oluwole Adeniyi (Nottingham Business School) at Nottingham Trent University.