Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present, And Future - Couverture souple

Miers, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199276153 ISBN 13 : 9780199276158

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Miers David

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 recognition that regulation offered a more effective method of controlling a social pastime that, by the mid-twentieth century, had become a feature of everyday life. Concerns over gambling have recently resurfaced, as a result of Government proposals to replace the existing strict controls with a regulatory regime that will give greater scope for licensees to adopt more competitive practices. Like the introduction of the National Lottery in 1994, these proposals represent a marked departure from the traditional response: to permit but not to stimulate commercial gambling. The potential for expansion in opportunities to gamble raises concerns about the accessibility of gambling to children and the possibility of increased numbers of problem gamblers. Miers examines the implementation and impact of the present law governing gaming and the National Lottery in terms of regulation and the enforcement of regulatory regimes. He focusses on how these regimes regulate the probity of the supplier, the supply of gambling opportunities, the nature of the transaction, and the player's participation. 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.

Revue de presse

an impressive book ... indispensable to anyone who wishes to understand why a gambling bill can still be controversial (Ross McKibbin, London Review of Books)

Miers's book, however, is not simply a fine resource for anyone interested in UK gambling law. It is also a fascinating social history and implies an exploration of profound issues in political theory about the freedom of individuals to choose how to live their own lives even if this means making choices of which others (perhaps rightly) disapprove and which are also perhaps substantially self-damaging even if they don't significantly damage others. Correlatively Miers's treatment raises fundamental questions about what government is for and what it can realistically be expected to do. ... Meanwhile, no serious student of gambling can afford to be without this book. (Peter Collins, Society for the Study of Gambling Newsletter)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199276153
• ISBN 13: 9780199276158
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 558
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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