| 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. |
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