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Regulating Commercial Gambling - Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover, New)
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Regulating Commercial Gambling - Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
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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.
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