Author: Floyd J. FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Gambling Law Enforcement in Major American Cities
Author: Floyd J. FowlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gambling
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Running the Numbers
Author: Matthew VazPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022669044X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today’s lotteries can be found in an African American gambling economy that flourished in urban communities in the mid-twentieth century. In Running the Numbers, Matthew Vaz reveals how the politics of gambling became enmeshed in disputes over racial justice and police legitimacy. As Vaz highlights, early urban gamblers favored low-stakes games built around combinations of winning numbers. When these games became one of the largest economic engines in nonwhite areas like Harlem and Chicago’s south side, police took notice of the illegal business—and took advantage of new opportunities to benefit from graft and other corrupt practices. Eventually, governments found an unusual solution to the problems of illicit gambling and abusive police tactics: coopting the market through legal state-run lotteries, which could offer larger jackpots than any underground game. By tracing this process and the tensions and conflicts that propelled it, Vaz brilliantly calls attention to the fact that, much like education and housing in twentieth-century America, the gambling economy has also been a form of disputed terrain upon which racial power has been expressed, resisted, and reworked.
Publications of the National Institute of Justice
Author: National Institute of Justice (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Expanding knowledge in criminal justice
Author: Ronnie MillsPublications of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
Author: John D. FerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
LEAA Newsletter
Author: United States. Law Enforcement Assistance AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Illegal Gambling in New York
Author: Peter ReuterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book-making (Betting)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description