From Prohibition to Regulation: Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling, and the Law

by David Dixon and David Dixon

The policing of illegal betting and bookmaking was a major issue in relations between police and working-class people until 1960, when betting shops were legalized in England and Wales. This ended an attempt to discriminate legally against cash betting away from the racecourses, which had reached its height with the Street Betting Act of 1906. This book, a contribution to the sociology and the social history of law-making, is the first major study...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198256167
• ISBN13: 9780198256168
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"