Regulating Vice Misguided Prohibitions and Realistic Controls [Paperback]

Regulating Vice provides a new, interdisciplinary lens for examining vice policy.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. It argues that public policies towards addictive activities should work well across a broad array of circumstances.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. It argues that public policies towards addictive activities should work well across a broad array of circumstances.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.1. The harm principle; 2. Addiction: rational and otherwise; 3. The robustness principle; 4. Prohibition; 5. Taxation, licensing, and advertising controls; 6. Commercial sex; 7. The internet and vice; 8. Free trade and federalism; Conclusions; Appendix: vice statistics; References. ...an accessible and wide-ranging book (largely due to the universality of vice), which, although U.S.-centric, is surely useful for students, academics and policy-makers worldwide. In disciplinary terms, it is accessible because of its relevance to legal, economic, and sociological study...
--Michael Russell, Saskatchewan Law Review ...provides a refreshingly balanced framewol“#