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Jokers Wild Legalized Gambling in the Twenty-first Century
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Thomas Barker, Marjie Britz
Book Code: C6587
ISBN: 0-275-96587-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96587-7
232 pages, figures, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2000
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2001
Reviews:
  • ...offer a well-written, thorough, and highly informative survey of key dimensions of legalized gambling...this fine study makes an exceptionally useful contribution to the understanding of an important contemporary phenomenon.
    —Choice Reviews
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Where Are We Now? Gambling Today
  • New Wine in Old Bottles
  • Sin, Vice, and Gangsters
  • Gambling as a Legitimate Industry
  • The Dam Bursts: Indian Gambling and Gambling Vessels
  • Gambling-Lotteries: State-Run Games of Chance
  • The Web of Gambling
  • Intellectualizing the Action: Why People Gamble
  • Effects on Special Populations
  • Effects on Communities
  • Enter the Federal Commission
  • Enough Is Enough
  • Appendix A: Nature of the Industry
  • Appendix B: NGISC Recommendations
LC Card Number: 99-059852
LCC Class: HV6715
Dewey Class: 795
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