Regulating Vice: Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls

by Jim Leitzel

Book Overview

Regulating Vice focuses on public policy toward traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. It explains why vice prohibitions generally are misguided, and also describes the dangers of unfettered access to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Sin taxes, advertising restrictions, licensing, and subsidies to treatment are all potentially desirable components of balanced vice policies. Regulating Vice brings a sophisticated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521706602
• ISBN13: 9780521706605
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"