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556 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (1998)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0556 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE When Morris Ploscowe and Edwin J. Lukas edited the 1950 issue of The Annals on gambling, there was not much interest in the topic for either the academic community or public officials. The Kefauver Commission had just been formed to investigate the involvement of organized crime in illegal and legal gambling operations, particularly with betting on sports events. The National Council of Churches registered their vigorous opposition to gam- bling, but the general public was ambivalent. Nevada was the only location where casino gambling was legal, while several other jurisdictions authorized wagering on horse and dog races. Other than the federal government's concern about organized crime and racketeering, gambling was not a major public policy concern at any level. This early Annals issue reviewed existing gaming law, described various forms of gambling (for example, lottery, book- making, slot machines) in the United States and abroad, and profiled profes- sional, problem, and Indian gambling. It was the first anthology devoted to the presentation, in analytic and scholarly format, of the many sides of gambling. Thirty-four years later, in 1984, William Eadington and I edited a second issue of The Annals devoted to the topic of gambling. In that time, consider- able change had taken place in the gambling scene: - several states had legalized lotteries in hopes their state revenues would be enhanced; -New Jersey became the second state to legalize casino gambling with the passage of a 1978 referendum; -the federal government had formed the Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling, which published a report that documented the fact that nearly two-thirds of Americans gambled each year and which recommended the continued policy practice of state, not federal, control of gambling; -highly regarded publicly traded leisure industry corporations such as Hilton, Holiday Inn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and ITT owned and oper- ated casino-hotels in Nevada and New Jersey; - 46 states allowed some form of gambling; and - treatment programs were established at several medical and substance abuse centers at the same time that the American Psychiatric Associa- tion recognized pathological gambling as a disorder of impulse control in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. The concern of policymakers at this time was no longer focused on organized crime and racketeering but on how to regulate and control legal gambling so 8

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