Patricia A. Stokowski

TL;DR: The concept of "sense of place" typically is used to refer to an individual's ability to develop feelings of attachment to particular settings based on combinations of use, attentiveness, and emoti...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared rural tourism places under different growth levels in terms of crime effects and found that high growth tourism counties would experience the greatest increase in average crime rates.

TL;DR: The authors compared crime levels before, during, and after the initiation of gaming in three rural Colorado towns and found that crime is not proportional to the number of tourists visiting, while some crime categories increased in some offenses.

TL;DR: This paper explored the underlying personal meanings of gambling behavior from the perspective of enduring involvement and considered the relationships among gambling and gender, level of participation, and illusion of control. And they found that male participants tended to view gambling as a form of self-enhancement or self-expression more strongly than did female participants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed and described an alternative model, the social networks perspective, which grounds recreation behaviors in the extended interpersonal relations of community life, and investigated the influence of social structures on individual behavior and the intentions of individual actors in creating various arrangements of social structure.