Regulating vice : misguided prohibitions and realistic controls / Jim Leitzel.
"Regulating Vice focuses on public policy toward traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. It explains why vice prohibitions generally are misguided, and also describes the dangers of unfettered access to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Sin taxes, advertisin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [UK] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2008]
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Regulating Vice focuses on public policy toward traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. It explains why vice prohibitions generally are misguided, and also describes the dangers of unfettered access to alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Sin taxes, advertising restrictions, licensing, and subsidies to treatment are all potentially desirable components of balanced vice policies. Regulating Vice brings a sophisticated analysis to vice control, an analysis that applies to prostitution as well as drugs, to tobacco as well as gambling, while remaining accessible to a broad audience."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521880467 9780521880466 0521706602 9780521706605 |