ArticleJournal of gambling studies2020
Craving for Gambling Predicts Income-Generating Offenses: A Pathways Model of a Japanese Prison Population.
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- The prevalence of gambling problems in prison populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2024Pooled it
- Craving in gambling disorder: A systematic review.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2023Pooled it
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- Sounds like gambling: detection of gambling venue visitation from sounds in gamblers' environments using a transformer.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Using the Synthetic Control Method to Evaluate the Impact of a Land-Based Gambling Ban on Crime.Journal of gambling studies · 2024Article
- Effect of pachinko parlour openings and closings on neighbourhood income-generating crimes in Japan: 6.5 years of observations.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Spread of gambling abstinence through peers and comments in online self-help chat forums to quit gambling.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A Change Talk Model for Abstinence Based on Web-Based Anonymous Gambler Chat Meeting Data by Using an Automatic Change Talk Classifier: Development Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Confounding Bias in the Relationship Between Problem Gambling and Crime.Journal of gambling studies · 2021Article
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Abstract
The links between gambling and criminal offenses have been frequently reported, but the pathways from gambling to a particular offense have not. Our study applied a pathways model to predict participants' income-generating, drug-related, and violent offenses stemming from their craving for gambling. The participants were 332 male inmates in a Japanese local prison. They answered questionnaires on gambling behavior, alcohol addiction, Internet addiction, impulsivity, and psychopathy. Their official records with information on their current offense, sentence length, number of imprisonments, and length of education were also analyzed. The results show that 38.55% (n = 128) of the participants had a probable gambling disorder, a rate of problem gambling at least four times higher than that among the general Japanese population. Furthermore, their craving for gambling predicted their income-generating offenses, but not their drug-related and violent offenses. Their craving for gambling can thus be linked to their financial issues, rather than their emotional and impulsive issues. The pathways model explained the path not only from addiction/psychopathy to gambling, but also from gambling to committing an income-generating offense.
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