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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 September 2004
- ISBN 9780198256724
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages560 pages
- Size 242x163x36 mm
- Weight 973 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book is about the public regulation of commercial gambling in Great Britain. It examines recent changes and proposals for change to three primary forms - betting, gaming, and lotteries - against an account of their social and legal history. The author then moves forward to analyse the current regime and evaluate the impact of the Gambling Bill (introduced in 2003) upon it.
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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 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.
an impressive book ... indispensable to anyone who wishes to understand why a gambling bill can still be controversial
Table of Contents:
PART ONE: 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
Gaming Machines: The Challenge of New Technology
The Rise and Fall of the State Lottery: The State Lotteries 1694-1826
The Re-emergence of Private and Semi-private Lotteries: 1823-1922
From the Local to the National: The Re-emergence of The Public Lottery
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
PART TWO: NOW
The Social and Economic Regulation of Commercial Gambling: A Model
The Regulation of Commercial Gaming
The Regulation of the National Lottery
The Implementation of the National Lottery: Concerns and Consequences
Deregulation and Structural Change
