| Description |
xxviii, 688 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. THE LEGALIZATION OF COMMERCIAL GAMING: TRENDS AND CONSEQUENCES -- Public policy considerations and challenges and the spread of commercial gambling / William R. Eadington -- The 'to do' over what to do about sports gambling: sanitizing a tainted activity / Garry J. Smith -- Attempts to decriminalize gambling: a political economy of tolerated vice / John R. Cross -- The rise and fall of the Third Wave: gambling will be outlawed in forty years / I. Nelson Rose -- Urban casinos as agents of development: case studies from Australia / Jan Mc Millen -- II. REGULATION OF COMMERCIAL GAMING IN AMERICA: OBJECTIVES AND EFFECTS -- An economic view of the Nevada gaming licensing process / Anthony N. Cabot and Richard J. Schuetz -- Public policy and gambling in New Jersey / Bruce Ransom -- Understanding the Money Laundering Control Act and its implementation costs in the United States / John R. Mills -- A comparative study of state laws on social gambling / Bob Ciaffone -- The implementation of the credit contros of the 1977 New Jersey Casino Control Act / Robert P. Culleton -- The implementation of excursion Boat gambling in Iowa / Lorenzo D. Creighton and Sean M. McGuinness -- Regulatory requirements and legalized casino gaming in New Jersey: the case for change / Jeffrey A. Lowenhar, C.J. Lonoff, and Rita Smith -- The role of gaming regulators in the next decade / Ernest A. Mitler -- III. REGULATION OF COMMERCIAL GAMING IN OTHER COUNTRIES: OBJECTIVES AND EFFECTS -- The evolution of public lotteries in British Columbia: the genesis of a modern lottery scandal / Judity A. Osborne -- The Australian casino model / Dan Mossenson -- Government regulation of casino gaming in Australia: the political and bureaucratic components and some of the myths / Arthur Neilson -- The British Gaming Act of 1968 in 1990 / Susanna Fitzgerald -- The British casino industry and trends in the 1990s / Lord Harris of Greenwich -- The national regulation of gambling and the completion of the internal market in the European community / David Miers -- Casino operations in the United Kingdom: observations on communication and cooperation between the British Casino Association and the British Gaming Board / Leonard Steinberg -- Consumer protection in betting / Jack Dowie, Mark Coton and David Miers -- Gambling in the Netherlands: development, participation, and compulsive gambling / Piet Hermkens and Ineke Kok -- Long term policy for short odds games in Holland / Mrs. Riet Ten Hagen -- The future of charitable gaming: European versus North American approaches to the organization of bingo operations / Ian R. T. Ellis -- IV. GAMBLING AND COMMERCIAL GAMING IN DIFFERENT TIMES AND DIFFERENT PLACES: HISTORIC AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON GAMBLING -- Gambling: shaping an opinion / Gabrielle A. Brenner and Rueven Brenner -- "Bugsy's" flamingo and the modern casino-hotel / James F. Smith -- Cultural values and gaming: manifestations of machismo in the Latin American casino / William N. Thompson -- Gambling in revolutionary Paris: the Palais Royale / Russell T. Barnhart -- The Jockey Club and the town in colonial Australia / John O'Hara -- Soviet gambling / G.R. Blume -- V. LAW ENFORCEMENT ISSUES AND ILLEGAL GAMBLING -- "Records don't lie": the use of interpretive analysis of illegal gambling operations / William L. Holmes -- The profile technique in bookmaking investigations / Lee K. Kavanaugh -- VI: VARIATIONS ON GAMBLING: RISK TAKING BY ANOTHER NAME -- Betting on futures in financial markets: a variation on old institutions / Stuart Wheeler -- Bidding for Olympic venues: case studies of bidding cities in the 1980s and 1990s / Christopher R. Hill -- VII: PROBLEM GAMBLING AND PUBLIC POLICY: DEALING WITH THE BI-PRODUCTS OF COMMERCIAL GAMING -- The politics of problem gambling: issues in the professionalization of addiction counseling / Vicki Abt and Martin C. McGurrin -- A casino company's response to compulsive gambling / William R. Sherman -- Characteristics and situation of gambling addiction in Spain / Ricardo Cayuela dnd Jose L. Guirao |
| Notes |
Based on the Eighth International Conference of Risk and Gambling, held in London in Aug. 1990 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Gambling -- Government policy -- Congresses.
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Gambling -- Law and legislation.
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Gambling -- Texts.
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Gambling.
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| Author |
Cornelius, Judy A.
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Eadington, William R.
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University of Nevada, Reno. Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming.
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| LC no. |
92234080 |
| ISBN |
0942828313 |
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