Fixed Odds Betting Terminals, a form of high stakes gambling machine, have been very much in the news in 2018. Parliament has been persuaded that such machines, dubbed as the ‘crack cocaine of gambling’ need tighter regulation. The debate about gambling machines is, however, not new. Coin operated machines have existed for over 2000 years, but the development of technology led to over 1000 applications to the UK patent office in the 1890s for rights on gambling machines.
University of Lincoln, College of Social Science Research
Mr Jim Rogers, University of Lincoln, School of Health and Social Care