This volume examines the approaches taken by jurisdictions-such as the United States, The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, and Spain-as they try to resolve the ambiguous attitudes their constituents and legislatures demonstrate toward gambling. The articles provide international perspectives on issues of :

• Public policy
• Regulation
• Law enforcement
• Characteristics of gaming industries worldwide
• Historic and social views

Contents

Contributors...............................................xv
Preface.................................................xxiii
I
The Legalization of Commercial Gaming: Trends and
      Consequences

Public Policy Considerations and Challenges and the
 Spread of Commercial Gambling
William R. Eadington........................................3

The 'To Do' Over What to do about Sports Gambling:
Sanitizing a Tainted Activity
Garry J. Smith.............................................13

Attempts to Decriminalize gambling:
A Political Economy of Tolerated Vice
John R. Cross..............................................39

The Rise and Fall of the Third Wave: Gambling
will be Outlawed in Forty Years
I. Nelson Rose.............................................65

Urban Casinos as Agents of Development:
Case Studies from Australia
Jan McMillen...............................................87

II
Regulation of Commercial Gaming in America:
Objectives and Effects

An Economic View of the Nevada Gaming
Licensing Process
Anthony N. Cabot and Richard J. Schuetz..................123

Public Policy and Gambling in New Jersey
Bruce Ransom.............................................155

Understanding the Money Laundering Control Act and
its Implementation Costs in the United States
John R. Mills............................................169

A Comparative Study of State Laws on
Social Gambling
Bob Ciaffone.............................................183

The Implementation of the Credit Controls of the
1977 New Jersey Casino Control Act
Robert P. Culleton.......................................205

The Implementation of Excursion Boat
Gambling in Iowa
Lorenzo D. Creighton and Sean M. McGuinness..............233

Regulatory Requirements and Legalized Casino Gaming in
New Jersey: The Case for Change
Jeffrey A. Lowenhar, C.J. Lonoff, and Rita Smith.........261

The Role of Gaming Regulators in the Next Decade
Ernest A. Mitler.........................................269

III
Regulation of Commercial Gaming in Other Countries:
Objectives and Effects

The Evolution of Public Lotteries in British  Columbia:
The Genesis of a Modern Lottery Scandal
Judith A. Osborne........................................285

The Australian Casino Model
Dan Mossenson............................................303

Government Regulation of Casino Gaming in Australia:
The Political and Bureaucratic Components
and Some of the Myths
Arthur Neilson..........................................363

The British Gaming Act of 1968 in 1990
Susanna Fitzgerald......................................395

The British Casino Industry and Trends in the 1990s
Lord Harris of Greenwich................................401

The National Regulation of Gambling and the Completion
of the Internal Market in the European Community
David Miers.............................................409

Casino Operations in the United Kingdom: Observations on
Communication and Cooperation Between the British
Casino Association and the British Gaming Board
Leonard Steinberg.......................................425

Consumer Protection in Betting
Jack Dowie, Mark Coton and David Miers..................433

Gambling in the Netherlands: Development,
Participation, and Compulsive Gambling
Piet Hermkens and Ineke Kok.............................445

Long Term Policy for Short Odds Games in Holland
Mrs. Riet Ten Hagen.....................................463

The Future of Charitable Gaming: European
versus North American Approaches to the
Organization of Bingo Operations
Ian R.T. Ellis..........................................471

IV
Gambling and Commercial Gaming in Different Times
and Different Places: Historic and Social
Perspectives on Gambling

Gambling: Shaping an Opinion
Gabrielle A. Brenner and Rueven Brenner................481

"Bugsy's" Flamingo and the Modern Casino-Hotel
James F. Smith.........................................499

Cultural Values and Gaming: Manifestations of
Machismo in the Latin American Casino
William N. Thompson....................................519

Gambling In Revolutionary Paris: The Palais Royale
Russell T. Barnhart....................................541

The Jockey Club and the Town in Colonial Australia
John O'Hara............................................563

Soviet Gambling
G.R. Blume.............................................571

V
Law Enforcement Issues and Illegal Gambling

"Records Don't Lie" - The Use of Interpretive
Analysis of Illegal Gambling Operations
William L. Holmes......................................587

The Profile Technique in Bookmaking Investigations
Lee K. Kavanaugh.......................................597

VI
Variations on Gambling: Risk Taking by Another Name

Betting on Futures in Financial Markets:
A Variation on Old Institutions
Stuart Wheeler.........................................635

Bidding for Olympic Venues:
Case Studies of Bidding Cities in the 1980s and 1990s
Christopher R. Hill....................................641

VII
Problem Gambling and Public Policy: Dealing with
the Bi-Products of Commercial Gaming

The Politics of Problem Gambling: Issues in the
Professionalization of Addiction Counseling
Vick Abt and Martin C. McGurrin........................657

A Casino Company's Response to Compulsive Gambling
William R. Sherman.....................................671

Characteristics and Situation of
Gambling Addiction in Spain
Ricardo Cayuela and José L. Guirao.....................679