| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 224 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Where are we now? : gambling today -- Extent and nature of legal gambling -- Conclusion -- 3. New wine in old bottles -- The colonists -- Nineteenth-century gambling -- Conclusion -- 4. Sin, vice, and gangsters -- New York casinos -- Gambling as a business : organized crime -- Conclusion -- 5. Gambling as a legitimate industry -- The phantom arrives -- William F. Harrah of Reno -- Las Vegas : adult Disney World -- Atlantic City : gambling on the Boardwalk -- Conclusion -- 6. The dam bursts : Indian gambling and gambling vessels -- The red man enters -- Roll 'em on the river : return of the riverboats? -- Conclusion -- 7. Gambling-lotteries : state-run games of chance -- Nature and extent -- Permission : you may -- The games people play : the modern lottery -- Please do : advertising -- 8. The web of gambling -- What is the Internet? -- Regulating the web -- Action by the states -- Action by the Federal government -- The business of online wagering -- Conclusion -- 9. Intellectualizing the action : why people gamble -- Compulsive gambling -- Pathological gambling -- Emerging definitions -- Square pegs in round holes : gambling theories -- Treatment models -- Benefiting from people's addictions -- Conclusions -- 10. Effects on special populations -- Youth gambling -- College gambling -- Senior citizens gambling -- Women -- 11. Effects on communities -- He says : the American Gaming Association -- She says : anti-gambling activist -- Conclusion -- 12. Enter the Federal Commission -- Introduction -- 1996 National Gambling Impact Study Commission -- Commission recommendations -- Conclusion -- 13. Enough is enough -- Introduction -- Market saturation -- Competition -- Gambling-lotteries -- Convenience/neighborhood gambling -- Further signs of trouble -- Conclusion. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Gambling -- United States.
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GAMES -- Gambling -- General.
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Gambling. (OCoLC)fst00937372
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Britz, Marjie.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barker, Thomas. Jokers wild. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000 (DLC) 99059852 |
| ISBN |
9780313002441 (electronic bk.) |
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0313002444 (electronic bk.) |
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