Author: Etats-Unis. Attorney general's conference on organized crimePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Attorney General's Conference on Organized Crime, February 15, 1950
Author: The Attorney General's Conference on Organized Crime
Author: Etats-Unis. Attorney general's conference on organized crimePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Attorney General's Conference on Organized Crime
Author: Attorney General's Conference on Organized Crime, February 15, 1950
Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Attorney General's Conference on Organized Crime; Feb. 15, 1950
Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Attorney General's Conference on Organized Crime. Febr. 15, 1950
Author: The Attorney General's Conference on Organiced Crime
Author: Estados Unidos Department of JusticePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Proceedings of the Attorney General's Conference on Crime
Author: United States. Dept. of JusticePublisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Attorney General's Conference on Crime
Author: Cutting The Wire
Author: David G. SchwartzPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874176530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The story of the Wire Act and how Robert Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob is creating a new generation of Internet gaming outlaws.Gambling has been part of American life since long before the existence of the nation, but Americans have always been ambivalent about it. What David Schwartz calls the “pell-mell history of legal gaming in the United States” is a testament to our paradoxical desire both to gamble and to control gambling. It is in this context that Schwartz examines the history of the Wire Act, passed in 1961 as part of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s crusade against organized crime and given new life in recent efforts to control Internet gambling. Cutting the Wire presents the story of how this law first developed, how it helped fight a war against organized crime, and how it is being used today. The Wire Act achieved new significance with the development of the Internet in the early 1990s and the growing popularity of online wagering through offshore facilities. The United States government has invoked the Wire Act in a vain effort to control gambling within its borders, at a time when online sports betting is soaring in popularity. By placing the Wire Act into the larger context of Americans’ continuing ambivalence about gambling, Schwartz has produced a provocative analysis of a national habit and the vexing predicaments that derive from it. In America today, 48 of 50 states currently permit some kind of legal gambling. Schwartz’s historical unraveling of the Wire Act exposes the illogic of an outdated law intended to stifle organized crime being used to set national policy on Internet gaming. Cutting the Wire carefully dissects two centuries of American attempts to balance public interest with the technology of gambling. Available in hardcover and paperback.