2,850
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Papers

Associations between gambling severity and criminal convictions: implications for the welfare state

, , &
Pages 519-530 | Received 25 Sep 2020, Accepted 10 Mar 2021, Published online: 07 Apr 2021

References

  • Aaltonen M. 2013. Socioeconomic differences in crime and victimization: a register-based study. Research Report. National Research Institute of Legal Policy.
  • Abdollahnejad MR, Delfabbro P, Denson L. 2014. The clustering of psychiatric disorders in high-risk gambling populations. J Gambl Stud. 30(4):933–947.
  • Adolphe A, Khatib L, van Golde C, Gainsbury SM, Blaszczynski A. 2019. Crime and gambling disorders: a systematic review. J Gambl Stud. 35(2):395–414.
  • Adolphe A, van Golde C, Blaszczynski A. 2019. Examining the potential for therapeutic jurisprudence in cases of gambling-related criminal offending in Australia. Current Issues Criminal Justice. 31(2):236–254.
  • American Psychiatric Association 2013. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 5th ed. Arlington (VA): American Psychiatric Publishing.
  • Arthur JN, Williams RJ, Belanger YD. 2014. The relationship between legal gambling and crime in Alberta. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 56(1):49–84.
  • Banks J, Waters J, Andersson C, Olive V. 2020. Prevalence of gambling disorder among prisoners: a systematic review. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 64(12):1199–1216.
  • Banks J, Waugh D. 2019. A taxonomy of gambling-related crime. Inter Gambling Stud. 19(2):339–357.
  • Bellringer M, Abbott M, Coombes R, Brown R, McKenna B, Dyall L, Rossen F. 2009. Problem gambling: Formative investigation of the links between gambling (including problem gambling) and crime in New Zealand. Wellington (New Zealand): Ministry of Health.
  • Bergen AE, Newby-Clark IR, Brown A. 2014. Gambling increases self-control strength in problem gamblers. J Gambl Stud. 30(1):153–162.
  • Binde P. 2016. Gambling-related embezzlement in the workplace: A qualitative study. Inter Gambling Stud. 16(3):391–407.
  • Bjerge B, Christensen L, Oute J. 2019. Complex cases–Complex representations of problems. Inter J Drug Policy. 80:102563.
  • Blaszczynski A. 1999. Pathological gambling and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. Psychol Rep. 84(1):107–113.
  • Blaszczynski A, Nower L. 2002. A pathways model of problem and pathological gambling. Addiction. 97(5):487–499.
  • Brooks G, Blaszczynski A. 2011. Judicial decisions on cases involving problem gambling and crime in England and Wales. Inter Gambling Stud. 11(1):81–92.
  • Canale N, Vieno A, Lenzi M, Griffiths MD, Borraccino A, Lazzeri G, Lemma P, Scacchi L, Santinello M. 2017. Income inequality and adolescent gambling severity: findings from a large-scale Italian representative survey. Front Psychol. 8:1318.
  • Castrén S, Kontto J, Alho H, Salonen AH. 2018. The relationship between gambling expenditure, socio‐demographics, health‐related correlates and gambling behaviour—a cross‐sectional population‐based survey in Finland. Addiction. 113(1):91–106.
  • Castrén S, Lind K, Järvinen-Tassopoulos J, Alho H, Salonen AH. 2019. How to support prison workers’ perceived readiness to identify and respond to possible gambling problems: a pilot study from two finnish prisons. Inter J Mental Health Addict. 1–16..
  • Conklin J. 2006. Wicked problems & social complexity. San Francisco (CA): CogNexus Institute; p. 11.
  • Cowlishaw S, Merkouris S, Chapman A, Radermacher H. 2014. Pathological and problem gambling in substance use treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Subst Abuse Treat. 46(2):98–105.
  • Crofts P. 2003. Problem gambling and property offences: an analysis of court files. Inter Gambling Stud. 3(2):183–197.
  • Danielsson P. 2019. Rikollisuuden rakenne ja kehitys. [The development and structure of criminality]. Rikollisuustilanne 2018 (Crime Trends in Finland).
  • Dennison CR, Finkeldey JG, Rocheleau GC. 2020. Confounding bias in the relationship between problem gambling and crime. J Gambling Stud. 1–18.
  • Devaney J, Spratt T. 2009. Child abuse as a complex and wicked problem: Reflecting on policy developments in the United Kingdom in working with children and families with multiple problems. Children Youth Services Rev. 31(6):635–641.
  • Dowling NA, Merkouris SS, Greenwood CJ, Oldenhof E, Toumbourou JW, Youssef GJ. 2017. Early risk and protective factors for problem gambling: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Clin Psychol Rev. 51:109–124.
  • Egerer MD, Kankainen V, Hellman M. 2018. Compromising the public good? Civil society as beneficiary of gambling revenue. J Civil Soc. 14(3):207–221.
  • Fatima S, Jamil M, Ardila A. 2019. Cognitive control and criminogenic cognitions in south asian gamblers. J Gambl Stud. 35(2):501–516.
  • Folino JO, Abait PE. 2009. Pathological gambling and criminality. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 22(5):477–481.
  • Gottfredson MR, Hirschi T. 1990. A general theory of crime. Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press.
  • Guenaga A. 2011. Improving the odds: changing the perception of problem gambling and supporting the growth of problem gambling courts. UNLV Gaming LJ. 2:133.
  • Head BW. 2008. Wicked problems in public policy. Public Policy. 3(2):101.
  • Head BW, Alford J. 2015. Wicked problems: Implications for public policy and management. Administration & Society. 47(6):711–739.
  • Hellman M. 2019a. Social and healthcare reforms and vulnerable groups. Nordisk Alkohol Nark. 36(1):3–5.
  • Hellman M, Alanko A. 2021. System level resilience: the role of welfare state accountability. In: Ilmonen, K, editor. Book on a resilient Finland. Forthcoming book in series by University of Jyväskylä. Available from authors: [email protected].
  • Hellman M. 2019b. Three theoretical concepts. Available from: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/cmehellm/2019/09/29/three-theoretical-concepts/#more-1181.
  • Hinshaw CD. 2005. Taking a gamble: applying therapeutic jurisprudence to compulsive gambling and establishing gambling treatment courts. Gaming Law Review. 9(4):333–342.
  • Jessor R. 2014. Problem Behavior Theory: A half-century of research on adolescent behavior and development. In: Brooks-Gunn J, Lerner RM, Petersen AC, & Silbereisen RK, editors. The developmental science of adolescence: history through autobiography. New York: Psychology Press.
  • Jessor R, Graves TD, Hanson RC, Jessor SL. 1968. Society, personality, and deviant behavior: a study of a tri-ethnic community. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
  • Jessor R, Jessor SL. 1977. Problem behavior and psychosocial development: a longitudinal study of youth. New York: Academic Press.
  • Kangas O, Kvist J. 2018. Nordic welfare states. In: Routledge handbook of the welfare state. Oxon: Routledge; p. 124–136.
  • Kivivuori J. 2011. Discovery of hidden crime: self-report delinquency surveys in criminal policy context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Kivivuori J, Linderborg H. 2009. Lyhytaikaisvanki: tutkimus lyhytaikaisvankien elinoloista, elämänkulusta ja rikollisuudesta. Oikeuspoliittisen tutkimuslaitoksen julkaisuja 248. Helsinki: Oikeuspoliittinen tutkimuslaitos.
  • Klavus J, Ylistö S, Forma L, Partanen J, Rissanen P, Mäntysaari M. 2020. Cost-effectiveness of a multi-professional case management experiment in Finnish labor market services. Nordic J Health Econom. 8(1):72–86.
  • Kolind T, Frank VA, Lindberg O, Tourunen J. 2013. Prison-based drug treatment in Nordic political discourse: An elastic discursive construct. Euro J Criminol. 10(6):659–674.
  • Kristoffersen R. 2013. Relapse study in the correctional services of the Nordic countries: Key results and perspectives.
  • Kuoppamäki SM, Kääriäinen J, Lind K. 2014. Examining gambling-related crime reports in the National Finnish Police Register. J Gambl Stud. 30(4):967–983.
  • Lahti R. 2017. Towards a more efficient, fair and humane criminal justice system: Developments of criminal policy and criminal sanctions during the last 50 years in Finland. Cogent Social Sci. 3(1):1303910.
  • Lappi-Seppälä T, Tonry M. 2011. Crime, criminal justice, and criminology in the Nordic countries. Crime Justice. 40(1):1–32.
  • Laursen B, Plauborg R, Ekholm O, Larsen CVL, Juel K. 2016. Problem gambling associated with violent and criminal behaviour: A Danish population-based survey and register study. J Gambl Stud. 32(1):25–34.
  • Laux K. 2019. Gambling Addiction: Increasing the Effectiveness and Popularity of Problem Gambling Diversion in Nevada Courts. UNLV Gaming LJ. 9:247.
  • Lind K, Kääriäinen J, Kuoppamäki SM. 2015. From problem gambling to crime? Findings from the Finnish national police information system. J Gambling Issue. 30:98–123.
  • Lind K, Salonen AH, Järvinen-Tassopoulos J, Alho H, Castrén S. 2019. Problem gambling and support preferences among Finnish prisoners: a pilot study in an adult correctional population. Int J Prison Health. 15(4):316–331.
  • Lintonen TP, Vartiainen H, Aarnio J, Hakamäki S, Viitanen P, Wuolijoki T, Joukamaa M. 2011. Drug use among prisoners: by any definition, it's a big problem. Subst Use Misuse. 46(4):440–451.
  • Lofstrom M, Raphael S. 2016. Crime, the criminal justice system, and socioeconomic inequality. J Econ Perspect. 30(2):103–126.
  • May-Chahal C, Humphreys L, Clifton A, Francis B, Reith G. 2017. Gambling harm and crime careers. J Gambl Stud. 33(1):65–84.
  • May-Chahal C, Wilson A, Humphreys L, Anderson J. 2012. Promoting an evidence‐informed approach to addressing problem gambling in UK prison populations. Howard J Crim Justice. 51(4):372–386.
  • McGrath DS, Barrett SP. 2009. The comorbidity of tobacco smoking and gambling: a review of the literature. Drug Alcohol Rev. 28(6):676–681.
  • McConnell A. 2018. Rethinking wicked problems as political problems and policy problems. Policy Politics. 46(1):165–180.
  • Mestre-Bach G, Steward T, Granero R, Fernández-Aranda F, Talón-Navarro MT, Cuquerella À, Baño M, Moragas L, Del Pino-Gutiérrez A, Aymamí N. 2018. Gambling and impulsivity traits: A recipe for criminal behavior? Front Psychiatry. 9:6.
  • Mestre-Bach G, Steward T, Granero R, Fernández-Aranda F, Talón-Navarro MT, Cuquerella À, Del Pino-Gutiérrez A, Aymamí N, Gómez-Peña M, Mallorquí-Bagué N. 2018. Sociodemographic and psychopathological predictors of criminal behavior in women with gambling disorder. Addict Behav. 80:124–129.
  • Meyer G, Stadler MA. 1999. Criminal behavior associated with pathological gambling. J Gambl Stud. 15(1):29–43.
  • Mishra S, Lalumière ML. 2008. Risk-taking, antisocial behavior, and life histories. In: Duntley J, Shackelford TK, editors. Evolutionary Forensic Psychology. New York (NY): Oxford University Press; p. 139–159.
  • Mishra S, Lalumière ML, Morgan M, Williams RJ. 2011. An examination of the relationship between gambling and antisocial behavior. J Gambl Stud. 27(3):409–426.
  • Mishra S, Lalumiere ML, Williams RJ. 2017. Gambling, risk-taking, and antisocial behavior: A replication study supporting the generality of deviance. J Gambl Stud. 33(1):15–36.
  • Mishra S, Lalumière ML, Williams RJ. 2010. Gambling as a form of risk-taking: Individual differences in personality, behavioral preferences for risk, and risk-accepting attitudes. Personality and Individual Differences. 49(6):616–621.
  • Moore TL. 2018. Problem gambling prevalence in the Oregon criminal justice system: internal report. Oregon Health Authority.
  • Mosher CJ, Miethe TD, Hart TC. 2011. Mismeasure of crime. Thousand Oaks (CA): SAGE Publications.
  • Niemi H. 2018. Rikollisuustilanne 2017 [Crime Trends in Finland]. Helsinki: University of Helsinki.
  • Obstbaum-Federley YC. 2017. From the social sector to selective individualized prison practices? A study on substance abuse among prisoners and its treatment. University of Helsinki, Helsinki.
  • Ogloff J, Davis M, Rivers G, Ross S. 2007. The identification of mental disorders in the criminal justice system. Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 334. Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
  • Oksanen A, Savolainen I, Sirola A, Kaakinen M. 2018. Problem gambling and psychological distress: a cross-national perspective on the mediating effect of consumer debt and debt problems among emerging adults. Harm Reduct J. 15(1):45.
  • Pratt J. 2007. Scandinavian exceptionalism in an era of penal excess. Br J Criminol. 48(3):275–292.
  • Riley BJ, Larsen A, Battersby M, Harvey P. 2018. Problem gambling among Australian male prisoners: Lifetime prevalence, help-Seeking, and association with incarceration and Aboriginality. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 62(11):3447–3459.
  • Riley B, Oakes J. 2015. Problem gambling among a group of male prisoners: Lifetime prevalence and association with incarceration. Austr N Z J Criminol. 48(1):73–81.
  • Rintoul AC, Livingstone C, Mellor AP, Jolley D. 2013. Modelling vulnerability to gambling related harm: how disadvantage predicts gambling losses. Addiction Res Theory. 21(4):329–338.
  • Rittel HW, Webber MM. 1974. Wicked problems. Man-Made Futures. 26(1):272–280.
  • Rossow I, Hansen MB. 2016. Gambling and gambling policy in Norway—An exceptional case. Addiction. 111(4):593–598.
  • Saarikkomäki E, Kivivuori J. 2013. Young people as objects of police control in a nordic context: Who are the socially visible targets? Eur J Crim Policy Res. 19(4):351–368.
  • Sakurai Y, Smith RG. 2003. Gambling as a motivation for the commission of financial crime. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
  • Salonen AH, Hellman M, Latvala T, Castrén S. 2018. Gambling participation, gambling habits, gambling-related harm, and opinions on gambling advertising in Finland in 2016. Nordisk Alkohol Nark. 35(3):215–234.
  • Salonen AH, Kontto J, Hannu A, Castrén S. 2017. Suomalaisten rahapelikulutus–keneltä rahapeliyhtiöiden tuotot tulevat? Analyysit. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka. 82:5, 549–559.
  • Salonen A, Raisamo S. 2015. Suomalaisten rahapelaaminen 2015-Rahapelaaminen, rahapeliongelmat ja rahapelaamiseen liittyvät asenteet ja mielipiteet 15-74-vuotiailla.
  • Salonen A, Hagfors H, Lind K, Kontto J. 2020. Gambling and problem gambling: Finnish Gambling 2019: Prevalence of at-risk gambling has decreased. THL Statistical Report 9/2020. Helsinki.
  • Salonen A, Latvala T, Castrén S, Selin J, Hellman M. 2017. Rahapelikysely 2016. Rahapelaaminen, rahapelihaitat ja rahapelien markkinointiin liittyvät mielipiteet Uudellamaalla, Pirkanmaalla ja Kymenlaaksossa [Gambling Harms Survey 2016. Gambling, gambling-related harm and opinions on gambling marketing in Uusimaa, Pirkanmaa and Kymenlaakso]. THL Report 9/2017. Helsinki.
  • Salonen A, Lind K, Hagfors H, Castrén S, Kontto J. 2020. Rahapelaaminen, peliongelmat ja rahapelaamiseen liittyvät asenteet ja mielipiteet vuosina 2007-2019: Suomalaisten rahapelaaminen 2019. THL Report 18/2020. Helsinki.
  • Sampson RJ, Laub JH. 1995. Crime in the making: pathways and turning points through life. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
  • Sharpe L, Tarrier N. 1993. Towards a cognitive-behavioural theory of problem gambling. Br J Psychiatry. 162(3):407–412.
  • Skogan WG. 1977. Dimensions of the dark figure of unreported crime. Crime & Delinquency. 23(1):41–50.
  • Stenius K, Storbjork J. 2020. Balancing welfare and market logics: Procurement regulations for social and health services in four Nordic welfare states. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 37(1):6–31.
  • Sulkunen P, Babor T, Cisneros Örnberg J, Egerer M, Hellman M, Livingstone C, Marionneau V, Nikkinen J, Orford J, Room R, et al. 2018. Setting limits: Gambling, Science and public policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Tolchard B, Hing N, Russell A, Nower L. 2014. A comparative study of men and women gamblers in Victoria.
  • Tu D, Gray RJ, Walton DK. 2014. Household experience of gambling-related harm by socio-economic deprivation in New Zealand: increases in inequality between 2008 and 2012. Inter Gambling Stud. 14(2):330–344.
  • Turner NE, McAvoy S. 2011. Problem gambling in the correctional system: A brief summary report. Gaming Law Rev Econom. 15(10):593–598.
  • Turner NE, McAvoy S, Ferentzy P, Matheson FI, Myers C, Jindani F, Littman-Sharp N, Malat J. 2017. Addressing the issue of problem gambling in the criminal justice system: A series of case studies. J Gambling Issue. 35:74–100.
  • Turner NE, Preston DL, Saunders C, McAvoy S, Jain U. 2009. The relationship of problem gambling to criminal behavior in a sample of Canadian male federal offenders. J Gambl Stud. 25(2):153–169.
  • Welte JW, Barnes GM, Tidwell MCO, Wieczorek WF. 2017. Predictors of Problem Gambling in the US. J Gambl Stud. 33(2):327–342.
  • Welte J, Barnes G, Wieczorek W, Tidwell MC, Parker J. 2001. Alcohol and gambling pathology among US adults: prevalence, demographic patterns and comorbidity. J Stud Alcohol. 62(5):706–712.
  • Widinghoff C, Berge J, Wallinius M, Billstedt E, Hofvander B, Håkansson A. 2019. Gambling disorder in male violent offenders in the prison system: psychiatric and substance-related comorbidity. J Gambl Stud. 35(2):485–500.
  • Williams RJ, Volberg RA. 2010. Best practices in the population assessment of problem gambling. Faculty of Health Sciences. Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre; Guelph, Ontario.
  • Williams RJ, Volberg RA. 2014. The classification accuracy of four problem gambling assessment instruments in population research. Inter Gambling Stud. 14(1):15–28.
  • Williams R, Volberg R, Stevens R. 2012. The population prevalence of problem gambling: Methodological influences, standardized rates, jurisdictional differences, and worldwide trends. Report prepared for the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.