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Regulating Vice Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls

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ISBN-10: 0521706602

ISBN-13: 9780521706605

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jim Leitzel

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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 analysis to vice control, an analysis that applies to prostitution as well as drugs, to tobacco as well as gambling, while remaining accessible to a broad audience.
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Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

List of tables and boxes
Preface
Introduction
The vice contrarian
Vice - it even sounds cool
Economics and vice and more on ketchup
The 3[fraction13] standard vice concerns
Harm reduction versus zero tolerance
Futility?
Toward a thesis
The Harm Principle
Kids
Vice lunacy
The ubiquity of harm
On Liberty on drugs
Addiction: Rational and Otherwise
Rational addiction
Time inconsistency
Dynamic inconsistency and rationality
Visceral factors
Addiction as a disease
The anti-disease view
Comparative addictiveness
Responsibility
Addiction summary
Addiction, self-control, and vice policy
Addiction and Intoxication
The Robustness Principle
Mill and addiction
The robustness principle
Harm versus robustness: the case of drugs
Comparing robustness to other vice policy regimes
Ignoring the interests of rational vice participants
Near laissez-faire
Harm minimization
Medicalization
Expedience or caprice
Robustness and the public sphere
Prohibition
Benefits of drug prohibition
A polemical case for drug prohibition (or against the legalization of cocaine and heroin)
A temperate rejoinder to some of the arguments of the prohibitionists
U.S. alcohol prohibition, 1920-1933
Drug prohibition and policing
Prohibition and individual rights
Civil forfeiture
The budgetary costs of drug prohibition
Zero tolerance
The birth and unlamented demise of one vice prohibition: the Mann Act
Prohibition and robustness
An intemperate conclusion
Asset Forfeiture and Cruel But Usual Punishments
Taxation, Licensing, and Advertising Controls
The policy huckster
The appropriate level for a "sin tax": the case of alcohol
Externalities
Harms to self
Distributional considerations
Revenue
Sin taxes and John Stuart Mill
Sin taxes as an uneasy halfway house
Prohibition plus taxation
Replacing a prohibition with a tax
Licensing
Licensing vice consumers
Advertising
Commercial speech regulation in the United States
The Posadas case: A way ahead?
Advertising
Commercial Sex
Kids
Sex addiction
Regulating sadomasochism
Pornography
Pornography regulation in the United States
Broadcast and indecency
Robustness and pornography
Public manifestations and broadcasting
Porn in private and in production
Prostitution
The robustness principle and prostitution
Shame, vice, and the law
The interaction between legal and illegal prostitution
Coercion and trafficking
A table in lieu of conclusions
Nude Dancing and Sodomy
The Internet and Vice
Vice on the Web?
Vice and the Web
Filtering web content
Gambling
Internet gambling
Internet gambling regulation in die United States
Robustness and internet gambling
Britain and gambling: toward robustness
Prostitution and the web
Robustness and Internet prostitution
Conclusions
Pornography and the Internet
Free Trade and Federalism
Pre-prohibition: U.S. interstate alcohol trafficking
Post-prohibition: U.S. internet wine sales
Alcohol in the European Union
Other vices in the EU: cannabis, snus, and gambling
The World Trade Organization and Internet gambling
Global governance: the United Nations drug conventions
Why vice should win...and why the victory must be limited
Medical Marijuana
Conclusions
A robust approach to a new vice
A robust conclusion
Vice Statistics
References
Index