NCJ Number
168416
Date Published
1996
Length
35 pages
Annotation
This document presents several media articles and other publications arguing that opposition to casinos and gambling is unjustified.
Abstract
The articles were published between 1994 and 1996. A newspaper column argues that crime has not been a problem in communities in which riverboat casinos have opened, that gambling does not hurt the local economy, that people should have free choice of their leisure activities, and that most people do not become compulsive gamblers. Other articles report that casinos operated by Native American Indian tribes have helped move people from welfare to employment, that casino gambling does not increase the number of problem gamblers in a community, that casinos can improve a community's economy, and that gambling does not jeopardize family values and the social order. Other articles report on gambling's favorable impact on tax revenues and argue that opponents of gambling base their arguments on hysteria. Photographs