From Prohibition to Regulation Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling, and the Law

Name: From Prohibition to Regulation Bookmaking, Anti-Gambling, and the Law
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ISBN: 9780198256168

ISBN-10: 0198256167

ISBN-13: 9780198256168

Edition: 1991

Authors: David Dixon

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The policing of illegal betting and bookmaking was a major issue in relations between police and working-class people until 1960, when betting shops were legalized in England and Wales. This ended an attempt to discriminate legally against cash betting away from the racecourses, which had reached its height with the Street Betting Act of 1906. This book, a contribution to the sociology and the social history of law-making, is the first major study to trace the rise and fall of the attempt at prohibition, along with detailed consideration of problems encountered by the police in enforcing anti-gambling laws, and the role of the police and the Home Office in the gradual acceptance of the need…

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/9/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 422
Size: 5.69" wide x 8.81" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations



Introduction



Anti-Gambling in Late Victorian and Edwardian Society



The Nagl's Campaign Against Racecourse Bookmaking



The Prohibition Of Street Betting



Gambling and the Nagl 1906-1919



An Alternative To Prohibition



Policing Illegal Gambling



Churchill's Betting Duty



From Anti-Gambling To Compulsive Gambling



From Prohibition To Regulation


Index