Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present, and FutureThis volume sets recent developments in the regulation and deregulation of gambling into three primary forms-- betting, gaming, and lotteries--against an account of their social and legal history. Based upon Home Office files and contemporary accounts, this book evaluates how the law was used to control and suppress popular gambling and then how and why prohibition gave way to the recognition that regulation offered a more effective method of control. 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. |
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The Gaming Act 1845 | 39 |
Social Class and | 217 |
Enacting Prohibition | 249 |
Copyright | |
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