Regulating vice : misguided prohibitions and realistic controls / Jim Leitzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leitzel, Jim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimes without victims--United States.

Crimes without victims.

Crimes without victims--Europe.

Europe.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 301 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Regulating Vice provides a new, interdisciplinary lens for examining vice policy and focuses that lens on traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. Regulating Vice argues that public policies toward addictive activities should work well across a broad array of circumstances, including situations in which all participants are fully informed and completely rational and other situations in which vice-related choices are marked by self-control lapses or irrationality. This precept rules out prohibitions of most private adult vice and also rules out unfettered access to substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and cocaine. Sin taxes, advertising restrictions, buyer and seller licensing, and treatment subsidies are all potentially legitimate components of balanced vice policies. Regulating Vice brings a sophisticated and rigorous analysis to vice-control issues, an analysis that applies to prostitution as well as drugs, to tobacco as well as gambling, while remaining accessible to a broad social science audience.

Contents:

The harm principle

Addiction : rational and otherwise

The robustness principle

Prohibition

Taxation, licensing, and advertising controls

Commercial sex

The Internet and vice

Free trade and federalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index.

ISBN:

9780521880466

0521880467

9780521706605

0521706602

OCLC:

166273858

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