Regulating commercial gambling : past, present, and future / David Miers.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Gambling -- Great Britain.

Gambling -- Great Britain -- History.

Gambling -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.

Lotteries -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.

Pt 1. Then

1. Gaming in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

2. Gaming in the early nineteenth: century: the gaming act 1845

3. Gaming in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

4. Gaming machines: the challenge of new technology

5. The rise and fall of the state lottery: the state lotteries 1694-1826

6. The re-emergence of the public lottery

8. Betting and bookmaking: social class and thee racecourse bookmaker

9. Street betting: enacting prohibition

10. Street betting: prohibition and its consequences

11. Going to the dogs: gambling, leisure, and the home office

Pt 2. Now

12. The social and economic regulation of commercial gambling: a model

13. The regulation of commercial gaming

14. The regulation of the national lottery

15. The implementation of the national lottery: concerns and consequences

16. Deregulation and structural change.

Includes bibliography and index.

9780199276158

x, 545 p. ; 24 cm