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A history and analysis of gambling in the United States from bingo to state lotteries to Indian gaming and the rise of Las Vegas, this book reveals how we have become a nation of gamblers and what the future holds for the gambling industry. From the colonial era to the present, Americans have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with gambling. It is a pastime that has gone from sin to recreational activity, and an industry that has moved from control by organized crime to management by executives with MBAs. While gaming is one of the nation's fastest-growing industries, Barker and Britz predict that this process will slow or stop in the next century as the result of market saturation and unknown social and economic effects which loom over the glitz, glamour, and action.
Providing the latest information on the nature and extent of legalized gambling in the United States, this study examines why we gamble and how the relative impact of the activity differs in certain segments of the population. Legalized gambling is, at best, problematic behavior with both good and bad consequences. State-sponsored gambling, both in the form of monopolistic lotteries and in tribal casinos, does to some extent call into question the proper role of the state or tribal nation in promoting a potentially harmful activity among its citizens. States that have looked to legalized gambling as a source of economic salvation may soon experience difficulties as gambling venues multiply and unregulated Internet gambling becomes more widespread.
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Legalized forms of gambling have experienced recent explosive growth in the US. Barker and Britz, criminal justice professors and seasoned students of the phenomenon of gambling, offer a well-written, thorough, and highly informative survey of key dimensions of legalized gambling. Following a chapter on the current status of legal gambling, the authors provide historical background on gambling in America, with some special attention to the role of organized crime. They then examine gambling's emergence as a legitimate enterprise, especially in Las Vegas and subsequently in Atlantic City. More recently, American Indians and "riverboats"--or gambling vessels-- have played a conspicuous role in legalized gambling. The authors also examine state lotteries and the growing (and troublesome) phenomenon of Internet gambling. They review different explanations for gambling, its impact on special populations (e.g., college students and senior citizens), and the role of pro- and antigambling interest groups. The concluding chapters discuss the role of a Federal Commission and the consequences of market saturation. Appendixes address the nature of the gambling industry and Commission recommendations. Altogether, this fine study makes an exceptionally useful contribution to the understanding of an important contemporary phenomenon. All collections. D. O. Friedrichs University of Scranton
目录
1. Introduction | p. 1 |
2. Where Are We Now? Gambling Today | p. 5 |
Extent and Nature of Legal Gambling | p. 5 |
Conclusion | p. 16 |
3. New Wine in Old Bottles | p. 19 |
The Colonists | p. 19 |
Nineteenth-Century Gambling | p. 21 |
Conclusion | p. 26 |
4. Sin, Vice, and Gangsters | p. 29 |
New York Casinos | p. 29 |
Gambling as a Business: Organized Crime | p. 30 |
Conclusion | p. 39 |
5. Gambling as a Legitimate Industry | p. 41 |
The Phantom Arrives | p. 41 |
William F. Harrah of Reno | p. 44 |
Las Vegas: Adult Disney World | p. 45 |
Atlantic City: Gambling on the Boardwalk | p. 47 |
Conclusion | p. 52 |
6. The Dam Bursts: Indian Gambling and Gambling Vessels | p. 57 |
The Red Man Enters | p. 58 |
Roll 'Em on the River: Return of the Riverboats? | p. 68 |
Conclusion | p. 73 |
7. Gambling-Lotteries: State-Run Games of Chance | p. 75 |
Nature and Extent | p. 76 |
Permission: You May | p. 78 |
The Games People Play: The Modern Lottery | p. 83 |
Please Do: Advertising | p. 91 |
Conclusion | p. 93 |
8. The Web of Gambling | p. 97 |
What Is the Internet? | p. 98 |
Regulating the Web | p. 101 |
Action by the States | p. 105 |
Action by the Federal Government | p. 106 |
The Business of Online Wagering | p. 107 |
Conclusion | p. 108 |
9. Intellectualizing the Action: Why People Gamble | p. 113 |
Compulsive Gambling | p. 113 |
Pathological Gambling | p. 116 |
Emerging Definitions | p. 118 |
Square Pegs in Round Holes: Gambling Theories | p. 118 |
Treatment Models | p. 127 |
Benefiting from People's Addictions | p. 128 |
Conclusion | p. 130 |
10. Effects on Special Populations | p. 135 |
Youth Gambling | p. 135 |
College Gambling | p. 138 |
Senior Citizens Gambling | p. 142 |
Women | p. 144 |
11. Effects on Communities | p. 149 |
He Says: The American Gaming Association | p. 151 |
She Says: Anti-Gambling Activists | p. 153 |
Conclusion | p. 163 |
12. Enter the Federal Commission | p. 173 |
Introduction | p. 173 |
1996 National Gambling Impact Study Commission | p. 174 |
Commission Recommendations | p. 181 |
Conclusion | p. 182 |
13. Enough Is Enough | p. 185 |
Introduction | p. 185 |
Market Saturation | p. 185 |
Competition | p. 186 |
Gambling-Lotteries | p. 190 |
Convenience/Neighborhood Gambling | p. 190 |
Further Signs of Trouble | p. 191 |
Conclusion | p. 192 |
Appendix A Nature of the Industry | p. 195 |
Appendix B Recommendations of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission | p. 201 |
Index | p. 217 |