Permit But Discourage

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE - A PREFACE TO REGULATION: THE STORY OF ALCOHOL CHAPTER ONE: Alcohol - Many Attitudes, Much Law, Mixed Results I. Introduction II. Alcohol and Public Health III. Regulating Consumption from the 19th Century to Prohibition: The Separation of Drugs and Alcohol IV. Prohibition and Unintended Consequences V. Regulating Alcohol: After Prohibition and Into the 21st Century a) Approaches to Control 1930-2000 b) Contemporary Strategies for Regulating Alcohol VI. Conclusion: "The Power of Law to Correct All Evils"? PART TWO - REGULATING EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION: NORMATIVITY CHAPTER TWO: Legal Intervention, the Regulatory Mix, and the Impact of Law I. Introduction II. From Soft Intervention to the Heaviest Machinery of the State a) The Range of Tools b) Taxes c) Is Litigation a Tool? d) An Example of Legal Intervention and of the Regulatory Mix: The Suppression of Smoking III. The "New Governance" and the Regulatory Mix a) Is There a New Governance? b) The Changing Emphasis: Two Examples c) The New Governance and Regulation of Consumption IV. The Impact of Law a) Introduction b) Determining Impact c) Assessing the Regulatory Mix d) Assessing Before Implementing?; Ex Ante Efforts - Regulatory Impact Assessments V. Conclusions CHAPTER THREE: Excessive Consumption and Normativity I. Introduction II. What Are Norms? III. Who are the Normativists? a) Law and Economics Encounters Law and Socioeconomics b) Some Examples of Normativists' Work IV. A Theory of Normativity? a) Three Accounts: Signalling, Reciprocity, and Esteem b) Things are Clearer Looking Back V. Normativity a) Excessive Consumption and Norms b) Excessive Consumption and Normativity VI. Conclusions CHAPTER FOUR: Permit But Discourage I. Introduction II. Consumption: A Loyalty Test for Market Economies? III. Marketing Excess a) Paths to Excess b) Creating Demand: Manipulating Choice IV. Law's Intervention: Permit But Discourage a) Introduction b) Permit: A Turning from the Heaviest Hand of the Law c) Discouraging: Can Law Offset the Market? Can Normativity? V. Recreational Drugs: The Outliers? VI. Conclusions PART THREE - WHAT ARE THE ODDS?: REGULATING PROBLEM GAMBLING CHAPTER FIVE: Gambling, Problem Gambling and Normativity I. Introduction II. "One Vast Casino": Gambling in England into the Nineteenth Century III. Twentieth Century Canada: From Crime to Harm Minimization a) Introduction b) Canada: Three Stages of Regulation IV. The Sudden Rise of Legalized Gambling a) Gambling and the Economy b) Benefits and Costs of Gambling V. Problem Gambling a) Prevalence b) What Constitutes a Problem Gambler? c) Factors Associated With Those Most at Risk for Problem Gambling VI. Norms, Gambling and Problem Gambling a) Introduction b) Historical Shifts in Norms and Attitudes c) Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Gambling and Problem Gambling d) Influence of Family and Peers e) Conclusion VII. Conclusion: "This Dreadful Vice" CHAPTER SIX: Regulating Moderation in Gambling? - 1 Overarching Considerations I. Introduction II. Regulating Moderation?: Promoting Cure? Avoiding Excess? III. Overarching Considerations a) Frameworks for Intervention - General Agreement but the Devil is in the Details b) Three Concepts Designed to Promote Intervention c) Independent Authority to Oversee Regulation of Gambling and Prevention of Problem Gambling d) Independent and Well Funded Policy and Research Programs IV. The Rise of Internet Gambling a) Introduction: Untamable Cyberspace? b) Internet Gambling and Its Proliferation c) Problem Gambling and the Internet d) Regulating Internet Gambling e) Regulating Problem Gambling on the Internet? V. Conclusion CHAPTER SEVEN: Regulating Moderation in Gambling? - 2 Specific Interventions I. Introduction II. The "Mix" a) Enforcing Existing Law b) Some Kinds of Gambling are Worse Than Others: Restricting EGMs (Especially VLTs) c) Saying "No"!: Excluding Problem Gamblers d) The Hope of Litigation?: Suing the Providers e) Refereeing Information f) A License to Play? III. Effectiveness of the Mix: "There Must be Some Impact" IV. Conclusions CONCLUSION INDEX