A tainted reputation it deserves? Crime in the trotting sector of Dutch horse racing

The Netherlands are a small country with an urban underworld history before a serious problem of organized crime has developed since the 1980. The interest of the mob in Horse Race Betting flourished before that time. After a long period of Prohibition since 1911 horse racing (especially trotting) a...

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Autor principal: Reuselaars, Angelique (Autor)
Otros Autores: Bovenkerk, Frank
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
En: Trends in organized crime
Año: 2021, Volumen: 24, Número: 4, Páginas: 547-562
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Palabras clave:
Bookmaking
Crime and animals
Drugging race horses
Geldwäsche
Manipulation
Match-fixing
Money Laundering
Niederlande
Organisiertes Verbrechen
Organized Crime
Pferderennen
Rennpferd
Rennwette
Trotting section of Dutch horse racing
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Sumario:The Netherlands are a small country with an urban underworld history before a serious problem of organized crime has developed since the 1980. The interest of the mob in Horse Race Betting flourished before that time. After a long period of Prohibition since 1911 horse racing (especially trotting) and betting on the results has become a very popular pastime since it was permitted in 1948. Especially during the nineteen seventies and eighties horse races drew a large audience and to a lesser degree they still do. However, bookmaking has always been forbidden since 1911 and that by itself presented in invitation to (organized) crime. Other well-known criminal byproducts of horse racing such as drugging horses, laundering money and matchfixing have been observed but as we measured only to a very moderate degree. The social variety of aficionados for the races is amazing. While doing historical and ethnographic field research at the race tracks we registered a mixture of people of humble origins as well as big entrepreneurs. There were members of the royal family but also well-known criminals. It is amazing to find out to what degree the latter have been accepted by the entire horse racing community.
ISSN:1936-4830
DOI:10.1007/s12117-021-09419-w