Covering the entire United States gaming market, Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States provides gaming researchers, policymakers, and hospitality students comprehensive overview of the history, development, legislation, and economic and social impacts of riverboat, land-based, and Native American casino gaming. Containing national and regional research about the industry, this book will provide students with a historical view on gaming and the hospitality industry, offer researchers data and current market status of the industry; and will give policymakers information about the advantages and disadvantages of a gaming industry in their community.

Part HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND LEGISLATION; Chapter 1 History, Development, and Legislation of Las Vegas Casino Gaming, Shannon Bybee; Chapter 2 Personal Recollections of the New Jersey Gambling Experiment in Atlantic City, James F. Wortman; Chapter 3 History, Development, and Legislation of Native American Casino Gaming, William N. Thompson; Chapter 4 History, Development, and Legislation of Riverboat and Land-Based Non-Native American Casino Gaming, Cathy H. C. Hsu; Part I ECONOMIC IMPACTS; Chapter 5 Casinos in Las Vegas: Where Impacts Are Not the Issue, William N. Thompson; Chapter 6 Economic Impacts of Casino Gaming in Atlantic City, Dan Heneghan; Chapter 7 Economic Impacts of Native American Casino Gaming, Carl A Boger Jr., Daniel Spears, Kara Wolfe, Li-Chun Lin; Chapter 8 Economic Impacts of Riverboat and Land-Based Non-Native American Casino Gaming, Stokowski Patricia A.; Part II SOCIAL IMPACTS; Chapter 9 Social Impacts of Casino Gaming: The Case of Las Vegas, Haemoon Oh; Chapter 10 Social Impacts of Atlantic City Casino Gaming, Denis P. Rudd; Chapter 11 Social Impacts of Native American Casino Gaming, Cathy H. C. Hsu; Chapter 12 Social Impacts of Riverboat and Land-Based Non-Native American Casino Gaming, Patricia A. Stokowski;