Regulating Commercial Gambling Past, Present, and Future

Name: Regulating Commercial Gambling Past, Present, and Future
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ISBN: 9780198256724

ISBN-10: 0198256728

ISBN-13: 9780198256724

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Miers

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Three quarters of the British population gamble (mainly on the National Lottery), and they generate around 46 billion pounds a year. This volume sets recent developments in the regulation and deregulation of its three primary forms - betting, gaming, and lotteries - against an account of their social and legal history. Many of the concerns that excite controversy today are little different from those with which the Home Office grappled for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Based upon Home Office files and contemporary accounts, this book begins by evaluating how the law was used to control and suppress popular gambling. Miers shows how and why prohibition gave way to the…

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List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/18/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 558
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 2.112

David Miers is Professor of Law at Cardiff. He is the author of Regulating Commercial Gambling and many publications on legislation. He has been Chairman of the Study of Parliament Group and a regular adviser on policy relating to gambling, crime victim compensation, and legislative reform.




Then



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



4 The Challenge of New Technology: Gaming Machines



The Rise and Fall of the State Lottery: The State Lotteries 1694-1826



The Re-emergence of The Private Lottery: 1823-1932



The Re-emergence of The Public Lottery: 1932-1975



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



Now



The Social and Economic Regulation of Commercial Gambling: A Model



The Regulation of Casino Gaming



The Regulation of the National Lottery



The Implementation of the National Lottery: Concerns and Consequences



Deregulation and Structural Change