Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present, and Future

by David Miers

Book Overview

This volume sets recent developments in the regulation and deregulation of gambling into three primary forms-- betting, gaming, and lotteries--against an account of their social and legal history. Based upon Home Office files and contemporary accounts, this book evaluates how the law was used to control and suppress popular gambling and then how and why prohibition gave way to the recognition that regulation offered a more effective method of control...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198256728
• ISBN13: 9780198256724
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"