Introduction; 1. Gaming, Suppression and Prejudice: Gaming before the Great War; 2. Gaming and the Law 1939-1960; 3. The Tortuous Road to the 1960 Betting and Gaming Act; 4. The Dance of the Seven Veils: Gaming in Britain under the 1960 Betting and Gaming Act; 5. The 1968 Betting and Gaming Act; 6. Gangsters, Ponces and Thieves: The Gaming Act 1968 and the Gaming Board for Great Britain; 7. Blood on the Carpet: The Enforcement of the 1968 Gaming Act; 8. Towards Deregulation ... and Beyond; References; General Bibliography; Appendix I Annual Drop (Cash Exchanged for Chips) Casinos 1972-2005; Index
Biography
Seamus Murphy worked for 28 years in land-based casinos before moving into the remote casino sector. During that time, he received a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Luton and a PhD from De Montfort University in Leicester. He is currently Course Coordinator for Criminology at the University of Bedfordshire.
"Murphy draws upon his personal experience of the commercial gambling industry as well as extensive archival research to produce a fascinating study of what can happen when an illegal market is legalized with little thought given to its subsequent regulation and latterly the consequences of deregulation as a result of sustained pressure from industry lobbyists." - Mark Roodhouse (University of York), Twentieth Century British History
