Regulating Vice
Subtitle: Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521880466
Subjects: Jurisprudence & General Issues; Criminal Law - General; Criminal Procedure; Law / Criminal Law; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Crimes without victims; Europe; United States
Description: "Regulating Vice provides a new, interdisciplinary lens for examining vice policy and focuses that lens on traditional vices such as alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and commercial sex. Regulating Vice argues that public policies toward addictive activities should work well across a broad array of circumstances, including situations in which all participants are fully informed and completely rational and other situations in which vice-related choices are marked by self-control lapses or irrationality. This precept rules out prohibitions of most private adult vice and also rules out unfettered access to substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and cocaine. Sin taxes, advertising restrictions, buyer and seller licensing, and treatment subsidies are all potentially legitimate components of balanced vice policies.

Regulating Vice brings a rigorous analysis to vice-control issues, an analysis that applies to prostitution as well as drugs, to tobacco as well as gambling, while remaining accessible to a broad social science audience."--BOOK JACKET.