International Gambling Studies is a peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal in gambling studies. Launched by a team of international experts with a commitment to the highest scholarly standards, International Gambling Studies adopts a transnational and comparative approach to the challenges posed by the global expansion of gambling in the 21st century.

International Gambling Studies seeks to:

• be a leading voice for analysis and research in gambling studies, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice and history of gambling;
• encourage the application of perspectives from all social sciences including sociology, psychology, anthropology, statistics, economics, education, history, law, political science, community studies, management, industrial relations, leisure and tourism studies;
• overcome the divide between the theory and empirical research;
• advance excellence in gambling studies by integrating academic and industry perspectives, encouraging comparative studies and critical analysis
• encourage articles that offer a new theoretical argument, provide new data or use an innovative methodological approach or mode of analysis;
• give theoretical and analytical expression to the intellectual and policy challenges in contemporary gambling
• enhance the public relevance of gambling studies in the context of contemporary society and global economic development; and appeal to a wide readership. While contributing to new developments at the cutting edge of theory and method, the journal will be broadly accessible to practitioners, students and policy makers.

International Gambling Studies features a forum section that contains review essays, symposia and debates. This section will encourage scholarly debate, publishing readers'responses to individual articles, short opinion pieces and conference information.

Peer Review Statement

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening, anonymous review by two co-editors and detailed review by two anonymous referees.

All book reviews have undergone editorial screening and review.