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Regulating commercial gambling : past, present, and future / David Miers.
LIBRA KD3527 .M54 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miers, David.
- Series:
- Oxford socio-legal studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gambling--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Gambling.
- Gambling--Law and legislation.
- Lotteries--Law and legislation.
- Great Britain.
- Lotteries--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Lotteries.
- Physical Description:
- x, 545 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- 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. The book concludes with an evaluation of the Gambling Bill, a draft of which was published in 2003 aiming to give effect to the Government's proposals.
- Contents:
- Gaming in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Gaming in the early nineteenth century : the Gaming Act 1845
- Gaming in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Gaming machines : the challenge of new technology
- The rise and fall of the state lottery : the state lotteries 1694-1826
- The re-emergence of private and semi-private lotteries : 1823-1922
- From the local to the national : the re-emergence of the public lottery
- Betting and bookmaking : social class and the racecourse bookmaker
- Street betting : enacting prohibition
- Street betting : prohibition and its consequences
- Going to the dogs : gambling, leisure, and the Home Office
- The social and economic regulation of commercial gambling : a model
- The regulation of commercial gambling
- The regulation of the national lottery
- The implementation of the national lottery : concerns and consequences
- Deregulation and structural change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [519]-530) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198256728
- 0199276153
- OCLC:
- 55600599
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