Strengthening networks against usury related to gambling disorder

Project data

Funding entiy: Regione Toscana

Call: Giunta Regione Toscana, delibere nn.1489 del 30 novembre 2020 e 1609 del 21 dicembre 2020

Coordinator: ANCI Toscana (Italian National Minicipalities Association)

UNISI Principal Investigator: Mario Perini

Department: Law

Start date:  1 January 2022 – End date: 31 December 2023

Description

The project includes the following research actions:
A. Research on usury related to pathological gambling, with the aim to provide a legal and sociological framework of the phenomenon
B. Strengthening a multidisciplinary research network with private and public parties involved in pathological gambling combat
C. Dissemination of research products with the aim of raising awareness on the issue

The research examines gambling disorder in its multiple profiles:
– Individual profiles, through the researches of psychologists and psychiatrists

– Context profiles, through the researches of anthropologists and sociologists

– Legal profiles: gambling regulation; related criminal offences; over-indebtedness and debt discharge procedures; civil regulation of usury

– Support profiles, with reference to prevention and treatment health services”

 

More information: https://toscana.agoragiocodazzardo.it/

 

This project has received funding from Regione Toscana in the framework of initiative against gambling