Bitcoin Forum

I recently participated in a debate on debatepedia and this particular one brought about a huge argument and I was wondering how that argument will play out here and hoping to view your thoughts on this.

Actually, the bone of content here is that does gambling cause an increase in various kinds of related criminal activities? Few examples of the major points raised were;



For me personally, I believe immoral activities are certainly based on each individual and it does not have anything to do with gambling. Nevertheless, from some of the further research that I made, I got to understand that, these things mentioned are very much applicable in most casinos; drug dealings, prostitution and even some casinos where the owners are into some shady stuffs. Well, just want to get to know what you guys think about this. Do you think Casino is like a hiding place for perpetrators of crime or casino on its own, ushers in a huge level of immoral activities by default?

That's not true. What kind of prostitutes and drugs would you expect around a loner's house who gambles with bitcoins? The big hotel-casinos is a different thing as they have to create that ambience for the big rollers. They're often associated with high lifestyles like cocaine, models and bg cars. It has nothing to do with gambling really.

I don't accept the argument that casino is the breeding ground for prostitutes, drugs and criminals. It is often seen casinos are the soft target of people, such kind of activities happen in hotel rooms, streets so pin pointing it at casinos is not a good idea. I also feel all these people are there because people want their services, and they want money it works both ways. If all this were true wouldn't all casinos be shut, or 24*7 under legal scrutiny? It's pertinent to note all this may apply to land based casinos, what'll you say about online casinos?

I think that casinos can cause crime and prostitution, maybe as we know large casinos in the world there are always Pubs and Clubs identical to women, alcohol and possibly drugs, many cases such as murder caused by cheating gamble like the news we know, but with online gambling sites I think it will minimize the crime.

For me, there are no crime effects on gambling, there are still effects but not crimes but mental disorders, addiction, deppression that will be having an effect on the people.The effect of these mental disorders can lead to crimes, maybe murder, stealing using drugs and other more

Some people resort to crime and illegal activities after losing it all in gambling, but I don't think gambling has a large effect on crime overall.

The points you highlighted all relate to real-life physical gambling in physical casinos, and therefore can't really be applied to online gambling if you're trying to make a point about online gambling. Illegal activities can still be done online, though, and that's something that is less researched.

The gambling was meant for everyone so it is unfair to blame the gamblinf system if some wrong people using them,I too agree that there were lot of criminal people were involving in the most of casino gambling because the legit money earner need to think many times before spending it for a entertainment purpose so the illegal earners no need to worry because they can earn lof of money without much effort.But gambling doesn't ecourage any crimes only it is about the people.

Most casinos do not advocate prostitution or other crimes, because they think that it will interfere with casino progress, returning to people's personalities is sometimes like ignoring the most important thing they just want to benefit from a large crowd, wrong of course there are so many people those who enter prostitution, do not agree if you see a casino as a crime, outside the casino there is so much prostitution, drugs and other crimes, you have to look from the surrounding environment.

I think its possible to amplify or pick up crime as a result of gambling experience. In particular, more so I think, in relation to old fashion walk in casinos.

This one is very funny. If some criminal elements operate near a casino it's the fault of the casino.
This means that if a criminal elements decides to rent out a building near your house it's your fault. You brought them there, there must be something fishy about you, if your house wasn't there they wouldn't have picked that spot :D :D

Their are two types of Casinos, some casinos are very professional run by fully licensed and they dont indulge in prostitution as they know that both crime cannot be clubbed and done properly.  

Some Casinos which are run by local goons without license and they run prostitution also as both are illegally runned and they both are clubbed as this local goons are doing all sort of illegal activities.

So now i think your argument got solution  

I am pretty sure there are more criminals out there that commit crimes when they are addicted to drugs or alcohol.

I am sure it happens, but I doubt some degenerate gambler will break into a car to steal $5 in change and try and gamble with that change.

With alcohol or drugs, its different because those substances are very difficult to control. However I might be wrong here.

Most of the time when security escorts someone out of the casino, its not because they tried to steal money from someone, its usually because they were way too intoxicated and started too many problems.

There are a lot of things that happened because of gambling. But I don't agree that there are no effect of gambling that is resulting to crimes since there are a lot of robberies and murder that happened because of jealousy on gambling.

If these people are so addicted to gambling, they will be finding more ways to gamble even if it means killing someone just to do it. They are so obssesed to it.

Gambling will surely increase crime as desperate gamblers will resort their crime to fund their gambling addiction. The way to solve this problem is for government to regulate gambling and educate people on the dangers of gambling addiction. However, land based casinos pay lots of tax to the government so there won't be going anywhere soon. Education is the only solution to reduce crime rate caused by gambling.

I don't think that the casino was related with the criminal activity because people who come to the casino at least have money to play. but they can be criminal because they need money to gamble still and they have stolen other people's money. but maybe there are any drug dealers and prostitutes near casinos because people who can win the games will have big money and they want to spend their money on anything.

the casino is not a hiding place for the people who make crime or the owner of the casino. but we don't know the truth, and we can only see them from the outside of the casino without know what is going on. many possibilities can happen in the inside of the casino itself, and we don't have to debate to other people because we don't know the real and it's only waste of time unless the casino owner is telling the truth.

True, immoral activities will depend on each person's personality. But most immoral activities are caused by money. When someone is in a bad situation that needs money to overcome it, personality can be changed. Gambling is an activity that is very close to people who have financial problems and can trigger people to commit crime.

I really think gambling will only be a crime if it would be illegal and unregistered, But if we look at the perspective of the player's anybody can do a crime if they would be addicted to gambling perhaps they can certainly do such things, It is pretty much certain that this is a neuro kind of thing that can confuse one's mind, I really think addiction is a pretty much a worldwide problem and can be qualified as a similarity for committing a crime just like what drugs do to a person.

Not all gamblers commit crimes, drug use, etc., but gamblers or casino venues are already stamped as having criminal activities in them such as drug use, prostitution and possibly murder etc. Therefore, not all countries legalize gambling even though there are still hidden casino places that have protection from several authorities.

Any person who has got addicted to gambling the chances of happening of crime also increases with that cases. Though it will a few % among that addictions who can commit crime and it will happen when they lose all their money and want more to gamble.

A very good casino will make all of its customers not criminals and disturb comfort, it is not right if someone who mentions that a casino is a criminal place, maybe a fool who can provoke riots or spread negative viruses between players, defeat can provoke them to do anything to get money.  :D

Do you really know cases of gamblers who lost money in a casino, went out and stole from someone or robbed someone at gunpoint to be able to get back to game? Never heard of anything like it. Gamblers aren't some hardcore criminals and they aren't blinded by drugs when they are playing. If they see an opportunity they'll take it but they won't start killing people to be able to play.

I do not really think so. Gambling has nothing to do with criminal activities. However, you can find a drug dealer who is into gambling. Gambling is just a way to have fun and get more money. That's all. Added to that, people do have their side activities like being drug dealers or go into prostitution. They also can gamble. But that does not mean that gambling incite them to do those things. There are many casino's owners who are not doing shady things.

If we're talking about real casino i agree with you - near casinos you can often see criminal groups of bandits and robbers, it's not safe. But if we're talking about online casinos - that's a great way to enjoy the game you love in a safest way.

According to gambling statistics, 1.6 billion people gamble at some point during a given year, with over 4.2 billion having gambled at some point in their lives. If a certain group consists of so many people, you can find any imaginable character among them, from criminals to astronauts. Of course it's wrong to state that "gamblers aren't some hardcore criminals", because surely there are some hardcore criminals among them. And it's not just a phrase, you can verify that by googling the words: gambler killing/kills/killed altogether and reading the real life stories about various incidents. There are robberies, suicides and homicides associated with gamblers and we can't deny that. But actually it doesn't mean that gamblers are more inclined to commit crimes than any other category of people. It just means that this category is very big. Google, for example, catholic + killing and you'll see even more shocking results.

Criminals profit from business that is illegal. In places where gambling is legal, criminals do not profit from it.  :)

Gambling is similar to legalized marijuana. A big part of its negative stigma comes from illegalization and criminal activities which spring up as a result of state policy. Once legalized things become more manageable, prices decline, quality of product rises and criminal activity greatly ceases if it does not cease altogether.

Right now there are many who are demanding that governments ban and illegalize animal trophies. The downside with that type of heavy handed authoritarian approach is, making animal trophies illegal would increase their cost and give criminals yet another market to leverage for profits.

In some instances legalization of things like marijuana and gambling could be the better option, in contrast to illegalization of those things.

In online their is high chance of getting the getting scam or some of the online sites can be easily rigged and you will never win and you cannot even do anything about it. So both have the pro's and con's of it. It is upto you how you take it.

Indeed some of people has been became an addiction while gambling and they eventually do some of criminals acts because don't have money anymore to do gambling but i think depend on how to control their desire some of people can control theirself and gambling normal and not became an addictions so gambling lead people to crime is not fully true because depend on the people themself

Like Hydrogen said, it totally depends on the condition of the zone itself when it comes to regulation and I totally see a lot of reasoning with his statement. Normally, in a regulated environment, the Casino will always want to stay clear of any criminal activities around and try as much as possible to want to curtail it even if it wants to suffice. It is understandable that a lot of people these days tend to associate gambling with high level of irresponsibility and then assume that anyone who is gambling is into drugs, or prostitution or this is always the case in most casinos. Illegal casinos will sometimes always have this issue.

I have been to Casinos before and all these things some of you are saying is untrue. Sure, certain people tend to drift towards a hide out when it comes to crime and they may want to use a casino as a cover up for their criminal activities and as a result of that could make the surrounding become more of an immoral ground based on the caliber of people going there. Now, if you go to a local casino where there is possibly no regulation or thereabout, things like this can always happen, but for some casinos, you would not even know there is a casino unless you are told, as there is usually serenity due to the caliber of people there, things are curtailed and since they would not want to jeopardize their business, all these things mentioned will not even be the case.

It certainly isn't about prostitutes in online gambling, but I suppose it can be used for money laundering. I can see that there are different researchers' opinions on this matter. A 2005 study maintains that theft and violence is increased by 10% in the regions of gambling and a research by Mustard, Dilley and Grinols maintains that 8% of the crime in the countries with gambling is attributed to casinos (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/10/30/studies-casinos-bring-jobs-but-also-crime-bankruptcy-and-even-suicide/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c1d74f968e9b). There was also an interesting study that said that incarcerated gamblers had addiction to gambling about 10 times more often than the usual gamblers of the same nationality: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5323489/.  I suppose that it is true that criminals gamble and gamblers are lead to other crimes with their addiction.

Well it's the same when you get addicted to harmful drugs. Your body craves for it and when you don't have the means to sustain your gambling, you get to do things you don't normally do. It's like an itch that won't go away unless you scratch it and desperstion sometimes lead to doing things we don't really want to do.

If these kind negative impact is there on investing with gambling and play casino then avoid it and stay away. If you need to make money choose the price and pick some coins like traders.
It will be retain and reboom the profit in your wallet with the comparison on USD.
Soon this gambling way of investment should be regulated more for sure.

We cant really oppose on such thing since we do know into most people who do play on a casino do really have that money which those drug dealers and prostitutes do really want to stay on that place since they do know the potential on getting on what they want because of financial capability.This is not actually a surprising thing and as said this would only depend on the individual if he would like to involve himself into those illegal doings but if you do just get to that place for pure entertainment and no other than that then you wont really make yourself attached to it. Criminal effect will always vary on the numbers who decide to set in.

It all depends on each of us, for those who cannot control themselves it might happen, they will commit a crime to get money to be able to gamble again. So, control yourself, win or lose is the risk of the game.

I think the influence of gambling will be the same as drink or drug addicts, maybe your environment hasn't happened yet, but in my own place that happened, some people play dice gambling and when they run out of money they then do many ways to get back to playing one of them stealing

Gone are the days where gambling is only associated with criminal activities and the mentality is what a lot of people have carried from that time past till this moment. This view is actually not limited to any particular region its one of the most universal myopic view. Today, I have seen responsible people engaged in the art of gambling and even me I count myself to be a responsible individual have been engaged in several arts of gambling and this was made possible because of two major things

1. Government regulation which has to large extent has being sanity to the industry which we have seen in several jurisdictions that have allowed gambling in their domain.

2 Technology has done a whole lot in changing that perception as today, gambling does not have to be done in a location. From the comfort of your room, you can gamble with any preferred currency and you get paid in the case of winning to your preferred platform. These developments are changing views gradually and in the future, this would continue to be so.

I don't think they are as intimately linked as they once were, back in the day, most gambling houses were controlled by criminal organizations such as the Mafia, which meant that mostly criminals and guys from the underworld would be involved. However, since it has been legalized, there is no longer any criminal association, it is as clean as can be in most cases, and even most crypto casinos are licensed nowadays.

You have no never heard about this but this is a fact and the reason is that addicted gambler want money for their addiction and to get some money they can do anything illegal but they want money at any cost. I have seen so many cases. Most of the robbers are gamblers because they rob and loot people to fulfill their addiction. When one thing is illegal why not so many?

It's rare for me to hear there are gambling addicts who commit big crimes like robbing or killing people. Usually the crimes they committed were crimes that were relatively small such as stealing from friends, parents and or pawned items that weren't theirs. Indeed there are gamblers who commit big crimes but that is very rare according to my knowledge.

Yes, most of the crimes are a small case, like stealing from friends, his relative but you know, when he start stealing like that, it's a red flag there because we never knows, maybe he will make a bigger crime someday.

I believe so.Even in our country i see a lot of addicted gamblers who rob expensive properties like jewelries,branded shirts or shoes or even high priced smart phones just to fulfill their gambling addiction.Gambling may be good for some but most of the time it can create crimes due to the greediness of gamblers themselves.

We cannot deny that the gambling environment is very negative and even gambling is labeled by many people as a negative action. You are right, not all gamblers have negative behavior but most people who do gambling are those who always do criminal things. So, everyone thinks gambling as a criminal act is normal because it looks at most gamblers who always do negative things.

Absolutely that's that's truly correct, gambling in casina are prone of illegal crimes
Number one reason some of the ganbler but not all of the gamblers use prohibited drugs because they want to alert and active mind body resistance

This is one of the reason why gambling is illegal in my country. Domestic violence, drugs, prostitution, theft  and money laundering, these crimes were rising when gambling was not illegal. The increase in crime rates actually lead to the prohibition of gambling. Physical casinos are prone to crimes more than online casinos.

Well we can consider Money laundering as one of the biggest Crime Effects.

That's why all Countries should take in consideration taxing.

Taxing won't resolve the issue. If you tax casinos they will have to increase their fees and every single user will have to pay for it. At the same time those who launder money through casinos won't care if they have to pay a few hundred more per month. They are saving much more on taxes by doing it than they can ever lose in fees.
Aslo, if the casino is in on it it hides the income so taxing it won't help because the laundered money is off the books.

Who said anything about taxing Casinos? Do you even know what governments taxing is really about?

It's on the last far end side of a transaction....

After you send ur crypto coins from fiat to bank or withdraw money.

Government takes taxes from your winning funds not from Casino.

In my country gambling itself is a crime and the people who are gambling addicted are mostly criminals. It is very hard to lose your hard earn money every time in gambling. To avoid this thing they commit crimes to get some money because they do not want to lose their own money or they don’t have any money. In simple words I can say that gambling and crimes are connected with each other.

The thing is that aside from legalization, you'd also need somewhat strict control by the government.
Or else it is still very possible that casinos attract all sorts of illegal activities.

You can bet your ass that there are a ton of legal casinos, that do some money laundering on the side for criminals.

Legalize gambling, sure, but also build a clear set of rules around it and enforce them.

Logical answer,but it doesn't menas all the gambers were criminals are spending the illegally obtained money some maybe have earned lot of money or even from their parent's properties so they are chose to gamble for spending their money.But gambling maybe good or bad for some reasons but it is not the reason for any crimes.

government can earn taxes from gambling too i dont see why a country doesnt want more taxes since it would help improve the country after all, people have a will to do everything they want from the money they earned its their decision to gamble it, i dont see a reason why gamblers are criminals that doesnt make any sense why would they label them as criminals its just people spending money.

If just gambling itself is a crime in your country, that just means thatgambling is banned in your country right? That is the only reason why gambling will be a crime right? When it is banned. If a country does not ban Gambling, it is still legal. You can still gamble as long as you want. Gambling causes depression, regrets to gamblers and that mental disorders will cause the gambler to commit crimes.

Depends on what kind of "crime" you are talking about. Crime itself is a very broad topic. But, it is true gambling and crime is somewhat related specially with the people who are addicted to gambling. They might do anything to get money to gamble. They might end up mixing with the wrong people and engage in criminal activities. But I guess this is true for just few percentage of people. Better not generalize everyone.

With addiction gambling problems in the family will be more chaotic, disputes and feelings of unhappiness will continue to haunt someone, especially when losing a bet. The warmth in the family diminishes during the act of playing gambling gambling and the like.

They used to be intimately linked in the past (just wanted to use that word of yours), but in reality times have changed.
Yeah, there may be some casinos that still tend to do some illegal shits and then you get to see some criminal activities revolving around them, but that certainly depends on whether gambling is legalized and regulated or not.

For now, in most countries, it has been legalized and of course, opening a casino now requires you to get a license as a business man, and it is only someone who would want to jeopardize that, which would end up screwing up with illegal and immoral activities around the casino.

Casinos are in some societies are assumes bad because all that done in casinos are illegal for some governments especially in third world countries. Gambling, drinking, dancing in some communities are bad things and are not allowed. In my country there is no casino because it is not a place for gentles. I can say that casino itself is a bad place because it provides you the gambling opportunity.

If you mean stuff like finding a crack at the website or the seed of provably fair and stealing from the casino directly than I do agree that it has a side effect like that however not all gamblers are hackers, some are just there to gamble, its the hackers who gamble that are creating these sort of criminal efforts to make money from easy ways.

If however you mean stuff like gamblers having debt to casinos and having hard time paying it back and going to life of crime to make payments than I do not think that is gambling related, that is just a crooked human who have been waiting for the right reasons to commit a crime.

We can't look at it like this. If a gambler loses all his money and then goes on a killing spree to make money, it's not the fault of the casino or gambling. There's something fundamentally wrong with that person. If he wasn't a gambler and lost his money some other way he would still kill to get the money back because deep inside he's a killer and that's where the problem lies. A normal person will lose money gambling and get a job to make it back. A psychopath will turn to crime and violence.

this is truth that Bitcoin yours is going on in some bad well but it is not a truth that it is fully going and for stupid use because main reason behind this cryptocurrency use is there making money Not for illegal works.
Here I can say that with the investment in the cryptocurrency we can make profit/loss and here we think about ourself that we are right at our place that we are making money by the investment in perfect way , where in actual no any type of scam involve .
But here we need to keep in our mind that not everyone is simple and honest to make earnings , few people get into illegal activities to make earnings like high profile money laundering , at porn websites ( in actual not a illegal work but still it is better for us to hide our details ) .
Here most of the things looking simple in our views but the government authorities have lots of responsibility to make everything clear and transparent so that nothing goes illegal/bad that can give impact in the economy of the particular country or the world .
That why such types of the activities are going much against the government rules and leading into lots of negative news about cryptocurrency use .

Really, like what the fuck does this sentence mean? Is this even in English? Looks like it but it has no sense, no cohesion, no nothing. A bunch of words glued together in a random way does not convey meaning and does not look like a legitimate post. Put some effort into it.

If you think that crime and gambling are connected go to las vegas and check if people are fighting in the streets for chips. If you make a casino in an area with a high crime rate it will only increase it. If you do it in a good neighbourhood nothing will change.

There have been so many news stories about casino winners who were followed out of the casino and robbed while making their way home. Of course, we're talking about casino winners who decided to pocket cash instead of a check when they cashed out. Not a very wise decision. So, yes, walking out of a casino with a wallet or purse full of cash will always attract unwanted attention from the criminal element.

For me, I believe that gambling have positive as well as negative sides on a person. Of course we are talking here about crime effect of gambling. So gambling may affect crime by means of the attitude of the person who are playing. For example, If the player eargerness to earn lead him to a greedy attitude and makes him act negatively. Also if a person who are losing cannot control his temper against to other players makes them to a fight. If a person doesn't have any discipline, crime may affect.

Casinos are mostly used by criminals. That’s why casino is considered indecent place. Most of the Gamblers are criminals too and they do any illegal thing for money. Drug dealing, killing, kidnapping for money, gambling and much more. I can say that gambling is the mother of all these crimes because when you get frustrated you will do such bad things.

That makes no sense at all, for the criminals to gather in one place. The casinos would have been busted already. I think known criminals hangout elsewhere. Those that you are describing are those that aren't wanted persons. They have possibly done crimes in the past but never got caught.

I really wouldn't say that such things root from gambling. Gambling roots from something else which is greed. Everything's rooted from greed. Everyone wants everything. The ones who don't want to do something illegal will give gambling a shot. It's why everyone's so crazy about the lottery. Everyone's hoping that one day their lucky day will come.

It's a messed up world. Everyone's consumed by greed. The new luxury these days is being genuinely content and happy with little things.

I want to believe that mentality based on how gambling has been perceived right from the onset is actually the main reason why a lot of people still link criminal activities with gambling related activities. Now, that there are regulations in some casinos, and they obviously will not want their license taken away from them, or the owner being in a mess with the government for illegal activities, I am sure a lot of criminal activities have been curtailed in the gambling world.

I guess anyone from this gambling community will agree with you as no one could predict what a frustrated gambler will do. Also, ending up in severe frustration in gambling is a most common event, we do see both in online and physical casino. An addicted gambler may turn as a criminal at any time as their urge to continue gambling may enforce them to do anything.

Many gamblers that still use to go to regular casinos are still criminals, because they can do every illegal activity form which they can get some money. These people are gambling addicted and when they have no money they will even kill innocent people to rob them. Online gamblers are not criminals because they have no social activities related to their gambling.

I don't think that the crime activity increased by the gambling it is just like the people involving in gambling maybe related to the crimes but most of the time only normal man just earn money hardly and get lost their money by gambling because of their addiction.But there are some illegal casino run by the criminals where the gambling is prohibited causing the crime activities.

The OP seems to imply that somehow gambling increases illegal activities and gives the example of prostitution and the consumption of drugs, but what gambling does at best is to attract those kind of people because they know that the people inside the casino have money to spare, but gambling in itself does not increase those activities, those activities will happen anyway, however there are some crimes that could go up due to the influence of gambling, for example those that are addicted to gambling will probably steal money to try to feed their addiction.

For me gambling does not increase crime but rather increase addiction to some people who does not know how to handle it properly. When it comes to crime, for me the number 1 aspect is drugs next is poverty. I don't consider gambling unless it was also associated with drugs.

There is a reason why gambling is addicting as it is a game where you could profit and make money but losing makes you play longer causing addiction. If you manage to check out the surroundings of a casino, sometimes it is possible that there are criminal activities near it. Maybe some of them will trigger the wanting of doing drugs or prostitution because of their sadness. It may affect, but it's by itself mostly.

And where do you think a gambler's life lead? It's definitely leading to poverty since money is involved. Druggies only have to buy a dollar worth of drug and they are good to go. Gamblers, on the other hand, have you really seen a gambler lose one dollar in a casino and then move on? Drugs are far more cheaper than gambling. Once a gambler has lost everything due to gambling, and I'm talking about to the point where he had to sell his properties and belongings, he's going to be homeless and start doing bad things just to survive. At first it will be just as simple as lying, then manipulation, then comes the selling of the small things such as jewelries, and so on. You get the picture.

Just so you know, it's not the drugs that makes people want to do crime. It's the addiction itself. They want to feed the addiction and so they commit crime. I mean, it would be so hard to steal when you're stoned. You can't even get off the couch. ;D

The addiction is the first thing that every gambler can get while they played gambling every day. But the crime effect is not just come only from gambling because the poverty is the one thing that might give an effect to the crime itself. So I don't think that gambling can gives effect to the crime, but maybe the crime can happen if the gambler needs money to continue playing gambling and he stole the money from other people.

I really would say this mentality about crime being associated with casinos came from the initial stage where we ended up having a lot of criminals using casinos as a hang out most of the time, and over the years, which has become something of a general notion for most people when it comes to casino. However, in this day and age, a lot of things have changed.

Now, casinos are regulated, you will even need a license before you can open one, and if you really do not want to get out of business, you would really want to be watchful of the sort of activities going on within the casino, so I would say this thing is something of the old time, except of course for places where crime rate naturally is huge and then there is actually no form of regulation at all.

I believe some (offline) casinos themselves allow such immoral activities to be done at their place, for e.g.; giving high drug dose to their clients knowingly or to make use of girls (here: prostitutes) because they want to either break their winning streak by breaking their concentration in either ways. But as OP says, it is dependent upon the players themselves to the utmost levels whether their only intention is gambling or they want those drugs and/or prostitutes for their physical/mental needs. Gambling is nowhere related to crimes unless done under debts because then, the debtor tries to either run away or kill the creditor in case they feel uncertain about the possibilities for them repaying back, and the same applies for creditors when debtors don't repay, either these creditors use harsh ways like extortion attempts to make them repay or maybe kill them.

I think its influence is not only from the external as you say but also from your own internal, because I could see how gambling
addiction will be the same as drug addiction, in the news someone stole money in a store because they want to back in gamble

If people have ost their saving or borrowed money then the trouble can starts as they now do not have any money to live their life or replay the amount taken. And by now they would be addicted to gambling so they require more money to play as well and crime starts from here.

Borrowing money to gamble is stupidest thing addicted gamblers ever do. They hope that, they could win big and pay back loans but, more often it never happens. In online casinos it leads to scamming other players while in physical casinos, it will lead to even more dangerous situations like threatening, blackmailing and other crimes.

From what I know Casinos and other vices such as bars and clubs are needed to have a certain distance between them in certain establishments like schools, churches, and colleges which they are required by law to follow. So in other words most of the vices and entertainment establishments always go in a one spot where all of them can operate legally, this entertainment zones also attract unwanted people who what they are doing are illegal as because these is where the money flows and people like them most certainly are customers of this kinds of places. I don't think it is necessarily the casinos' fault but they all attract different kinds of people whether they are good or bad.

So do you agree that it increases or not? Because on one side you say it doesn't then you say it does ???

People involved in gambling are not generally related to criminal activities and even though we might say some immoral stuff may be going on once in a while, as you will definitely see sometimes, prostitutes maybe trying to hang around but in such cases, we all know it is there business and business owners tend to flock to places where they can have potential customers ;D ...
Nonetheless, regulation of casinos have really changed a lot of things over the years and even though there may still be some immoral activities, but for criminal activities, I would not say it is a thing anymore.

I think it's just speeches of excitement where you swear and just be excited. Not necessarily true, but I'm not sure what you could say if it's immoral or something but knowing people, probably they have done that. I think the prostitutes have their own targets in mind, especially the ones with who has a lot of money. They can be potential customers for them. For the criminal activities, we can never know if there is really something going on unless they have been caught.

He said the crime rates were increase because of drugs and Poverty then it may fall under gambling too but literally less when compared to the above two.But as he said the poverty causing the people to do anything to make money that is why they become criminals in the eyes of governments but some of them maybe considered as criminals too when they are doing much right things.

Gambling is a bad thing no matter online or regular and a bad thing has always bad consequences. Many people say that gambling is the mother of all crimes, because ordinary people who care for their families will never gambler, because it is hard to lose your money in gambling and back to your home with empty pocket.

The casino just want to create the the social setting that so that people would be willing to come there. It has nothing to do with the crime. 

I agree with you, only people that make the crime and I think it's not related to the casino. Gambler makes the crime because they need money to continue playing in the gambling so they can steal other people money and come back to the casino. Or they can rob the house and take the money and then they can play the game again. But still, we don't know what the reason behind the crime is.

No you are wrong. In my opinion gambling is the mother of all crimes. When a gambler loses money in gambling, definitely he will become angry and will anger to get back his money and when he has no more money he will do illegal activities to get some money for gambling. This is a fact and I have seen many people doing this. Gradually they become professional criminals.

Mother of all crimes? Then how would you explain the other crimes that were done by non-gamblers? I think you're exaggerating things. You can be a non-gambler but still have dark thoughts and commit crime ultimately. And you can be a gambler but still be a good person. Gambling has nothing to do with crime. It's the addiction that makes you act up. You're too addicted to gambling that you start committing crime just to feed your addiction.

I think it's only in extreme cases that this actually happens. There's still parts of a gambler that's remained sane and so he'll be able to save himself from bankruptcy. It's only in extreme cases when a gambler has to do illegal things. For the professional criminal, idk if such a thing exists (gambler turned professional criminal). Because professional criminal would mean something like a hit man that gets paid to do a crime. That's quite intense and would require knowledge on how to kill a man without getting caught. I don't think something like that can be learned in gambling.

There are two types of gamblers, addictors and time passers. Those who just gamble to have some fun with friends and enjoy the drinking and dancing party will never be criminals because they have no interest in gambling, but those who are gambling addictors will do anything for gambling. Gambling is their business, their job and the source of making money.

I agree with most replies. Gambling doesn’t cause an increase in crime. It can be linked to crime in some areas but the other way around. Crime tries to get into the gambling industry to launder money.

Also think about nowadays. Do you think online gambling from home causes an increase in crimes? Not at all.

I agree with you on that. It’s not just the way gamblers feel in it, it is also the part where other people are capable of doing the same thing. I know someone who has been a gambling addict but is still a good person. He knows what the Rights and wrongs are whether he has the money or not, he is capable of controlling himself (from crimes). He wouldn't hurt anyone to have money, but when he has money, it’s on.

In my thoughts, people who commit crime and gamble makes everything work in the evil ways, making the underground full of money. They tend to have debts and to live on the edge. I think no one gets like that quickly if he has something to lose, like family.

I think that most of the crimes are increasing due to gambling because a regular and addicted gambler can do every illegal activity to get some money for gambling. When they lose all their money in casino, they try to loot or rob people to get money for more gambling. They are the worst people of the world, because they have no serious job and no care for family.

I think the whole thing is related dude. when you become a gambling addict you will desperately need money to return to gambling even though you have run out of money. this will be like drug addiction right? and when you bankrupt you will be poor and increase crime?

There are legal casinos but most most are illegals. They are abusing this kind of thing since casinos can surely earn big money plus there can be hidden transactions that serves as additional big time income.
On the other, I am also seeing another crime led by casinos. People are killing one another for money. The tendency is, powerful people influence or control small people that has less money for their own good.

But if a gambler was playing he wouldn't commit a crime in the process either. I agree with you that it's the addiction not drugs or gambling by itself what makes people to commit crimes, but those kinds of addictions are very different. You can be distracted by something interesting and forget about gambling even being addicted to it, while this can't happen with drug addiction because you feel physical pain during withdrawals which can't be ignored.

Gambling has been historically intertwined with criminal activity but the connection has becoming weaker with the implementation of online gambling.

Yes,online games nothing related to crimes unless gambling is fully banned in your country.Even the gambling is not related to crimes in most places other than the casinos run but the criminals which also the place where drugs are available.But it maybe causes some crimes because of the people who needs money for gambling due to their addiction level when they get into some stage they do anything for the money which is needed for their gambling activities.

Okay, now this is from a very different perspective I did not even get to think of at all in the first place. Usually, we have always seen the desperation in some gambling addicts in the way they expose themselves to certain things and then get to find a way to fulfill their urge and desire to gamble and can go to any length to do something to at least get money to gamble.

However, we should also know that being an addict generally is something that a lot of people inflict on themselves, so putting the blame on a casino is not it. In relation to criminal activities, it can happen anywhere and even though we have heard of several casinos in the past being involved in some dark deals does not mean every casino out there is a culprit.

I want to even believe the idea of even associating gambling with crime is over stated and based on what some would have watched in movies with casinos being used for some underground deals, they just assume that every casino owner is dirty.

You cannot know who is dirty until you catch them dirty and one thing is that even though we may see some different caliber of people in the gambling world, that still does not mean crime cannot happen even outside the gambling environment. Criminality is only applicable to each individual and has nothing to do with gambling in its entirety.

Yeah I agree to this that gambling is responsible for the increasing crimes in the community. Nice and wise people will never gamble because they know the consequences of gambling. In my community a gambler has no respect even in his own home. He is just an idol person of the community. If he has a lot of money and no respect then he should think about his life.

Yes, there are only few people who does crime to gamble. Seems like his statement is pure exaggeration. But, there are many illegal activities which are often connected to gambling. For instance, drugs, prostitution, illegal money lending and laundering, blackmail and threatening and many more. 

But for drug addiction and gambling addiction is different. You see, when a drug addict takes drug every single day, they can affect their mind that will end up making crimes. Also, drugs are banned in our country the reason it is different with gambling.

On the other hand, gambling is not banned in our country which means we can gamble whenever we want the inly problem is the desperate ones that wants to win their every gambling sessions the reason they ended up commiting crimes. With gambling, there are still a lit of people with their sanities attached to them while drug addicts are feared because if they are under the effect of drugs, they can easily commit crimes without really thinking of it.

Okay, I think you are beginning to overstate things when you are saying gambling is the mother of all crimes, which means every crime that we see today, robbing, drugs, selling ammunition in the dark market and so on and so forth all evolved from gambling ? Oh please, in the past, crime may have been associated with casinos, but these days when casinos are getting license before they even operate, there are some things they just cannot do.

Now, shady deals depends on each individual and even in the absence of casino, there will still always be crime, so saying that gambling is the mother of all crimes which is just an activity that is even regulated in some places, is absurd.

Gambling itself is a bad thing and the consequences are also worst. I have seen thousands of gamblers who ruined their lives because of regular gambling. You cannot make any money in regular gambling and once you become addicted, it will be difficult for you to quit gambling easily. You will not only lose money but also respect even in your own family.

I think there are still some wise people who go to gambling but what makes them nice is that they only made it to their spare time.Gambling will only be bad if you became addicted to it and you cannot control anymore your activities so you end up stealing from other people.

Yes, I am sure that not all people playing gambling for a long time and there will be many people who were only playing gambling in their free time. They know that gambling is trying to get all of their money and they will prevent to get a big loss. Those people might be afraid to become addicted because it can get them to make something wrong for their life and other people lives too so they will stay in the gambling place and play some games and they will leave the gambling places as soon as possible.

Mostly criminal are also gamblers and gamblers are also criminals. When a gambler loses money in gambling he will do some illegal to get some money to continue his gambling. I think that gambling is the mother of crimes. Gamblers gradually become professional criminals and even commit murder for their money. Snatching, looting is their normal routine.

You might be right in some cases but everything is still a vice versa situations and that does not make make gambling the mother of crime because the habit taking by each and everyone of us lie on each individuals decision making. However, if you search closely the gambler that does the act you mentioned they are already a crime from the get go which they seized gambling as means to cover up their shady acts.

I disagree if gambling is the mother of crimes, because that makes them have no control of emotions well because the losses in gambling are drugs. Therefore we often know / see in every gambling place sell all alcoholic beverages that will make you lose control of the effects of the alcohol. This is different from online gambling that we can play at home or on the sidelines of our routine, because online gambling will be more relaxed and not all online gamblers use / consume drugs while playing.

Well :), you would not blame us all for all the things we have been accustomed to seeing in the movies when it comes to casinos and that has really brought about the mindset that casinos are always involved in dirty deals which has been happening over the years and still happening till date.

I remember some seasonal movies I watched recently, The Deuce as well as Power and at the end of the day, it still all pointed towards one thing with gambling, and that is crime.

I really do not know how this is in the real world anyway, but one thing for sure is that I would not expect that because it is like that in the movies, people should just assume that is the way it is in real life, because you really would not know if there is a criminal activity in the first place until they are caught.

I would rather say people are generally responsible for the crimes they commit and it has nothing to do with gambling at all. I understand just like the OP and so many people have said that it is a normal thing to see a lot of people associating criminal activities like drugs, weapon and ammunition dealings and the likes when it comes to gambling, but really, with or without gambling, that does not stop criminal activities from still taking place in a society.

I think what most people really have about casino is that a responsible person does not gamble and that makes it filled with irresponsible people who are prone to criminal and immoral activities, but that is a lie.

I absolutely agree with you and we can rely on statistics in this matter. Researchers from Washington University at St. Louis provided us with some data, and according to them approximately 1.6 billion people gamble during any given year with over 4.2 billion having gambled at some point. If all those people were criminals or moral monsters this world wouldn't survive in such circumstances. I'm not trying to say that criminals don't gamble, nor that all gamblers are good people. But we have to admit that most gamblers are regular people posing no threat to society.

Gambler are not criminals but out of them hardly a few % of people may turn into the criminals depending upon the money they would have lose in gambling and require more money to either repay some debt taken or they have lost everything of theirs and to run their future life require some money etc.

We all know that gambling is one of the way on how people earn profits today in crypto. But as a smart player we must also know that this gambling isn't the best way to earn. It has advantages but the disadvantages are quite most concern. We must be aware on how this gambling may affect pure behavior in earning.  We must know when to stop and avois being greedy in profit.  In that, we will avoid negative acts that may lead us to make crime.

I admit that gambling cause’s crimes increase in a community. Most of the gamblers do anything illegal for their gambling. When they lose money they also create such an atmosphere that the opponent leaves the place without taking his money. Regular gamblers are the worst people in the world. Gambling and crime are the two names of one thing. There is no difference between these two.

Online gambling is something different and I don’t count it in gambling. It is just time passing and wasting money. There is no fun, entertainment, enjoyment, thrill and ups and downs in online gambling. For me online gambling is not for boys, it is just for girls. A man will always visit a casino for gambling and that is real gambling. I agree that online gambling is not bad.

That's why gambling become forbidden at my country and it's still happen until now.
Yes, it's reasonable since my people still can't be control and need some regulation on it.
Murder,become thief,etc really bring bad impact on our life and my government really want finish them all !

I think not all gamblers are prone in making crimes.There are gamblers who still have good thinking not to commit crimes because that will definitely ruin their whole lives.Even if you're not a gambler and you're facing lot of financial problems in life,you can still commit crimes if you really want to.Being greedy and does not fear God is mostly the sources of crime.

In my opinion and based on what I really know everything that you mentioned in the latter part of what you said is true. Yes, not all gamblers are committing crimes but the site itself (casino) is a den of different kinds of immorality. This is just in casinos and not to mention other gambling maybe small or big which cause a lot to commit crimes like stealing, cheating, lying and many more immoral activities. Had even witnessed broken families because of gambling addiction. Husbands sold their house and properties without the knowledge of wives. 

Yes, gambling does have a negative impact on those who cannot control themselves well and if it continues, the government should prohibit gambling to minimize crime and theft, even though we know that crime and theft do not only occur due to the effects of gambling, but from gambling is because depression is so severe, crime and theft can also have very negative effects on the surrounding environment.

Gamblers may be suspicious but actual frauds means you. Red to trap the site owner only.  They were introducing which is not legal in your country so you must be careful before you invested on any gambling sites.

Criminals in gambling field? I don't vote for it for sure.

Maximum people invested on gambling must clear the way they are moving for earning purposes.

These issues are connected to casinos without doubts. There is prostitution and drugs usage in casinos or near them because the mafias that operate it usually make money from these other activities too. But I believe there are some ethical casino operators that don't follow this modus-operandi and proportionate a decent environment to their customers, especially those casinos which have as main customers old ladies and gentlemen.

It really depends on who is operating the casino. Anyway I think casinos can be a decent place to visit, have a good time with class, confort and style, since it's well managed.

Well i dont consider recovering your looses an addiction if he meant to say that.

Ofc he needs to risk it but to follow the profit he will have to do it at all costs.

I think that gambling is the mother of crimes and criminals. You see that most of the gamblers are also murderer, gangsters, looters; snatchers etc. gamblers will do every illegal activity. They will spend nights on the roads because they have no place and respect in their own home. You can think about their lives. They are spending their lives as dogs on the road. 

I don't know what respect you are talking about, but either way losing respect of your family is not a crime, as well as losing your own money btw. What we are discussing here is possible crime effect of gambling or, in other words, what percentage of gamblers is inclined to commit crimes because of their gambling.

In most cases the stats provided in support of the notion that gamblers commit crimes more often than regular people are wrong and manipulative. As long as 4.2 billion people, or over 50% of the world population, have gambled at one time or another, it is possible to compose any "stats". One can make up a research showing a "correlation" between gambling and divorces, deaths from lung cancer etc. Same can be done for people who eat cucumbers, drink coca-cola and so on.

If you are recovering your losses, it is either you are addicted already or you are just on your way to getting addicted, and it is just a matter of time before you end up reaching that final destination where you will get trapped in that your pursuit for loss recovery.

It has never ended up well for those who are possibly trying to recover their loss and it never will because it is the mindset that you brought into gambling in the first place that would make you to ever consider trying to recover loss which is more like trying to push your luck harder for winning, and that is something terrible.

It is true that people come to gambling site for the purpose of money making but we need money to bet on the gambling sites which may tempt the people to do crimes to get that money and even when they are addicted they can do anything to gamble but it is very rare case thoug.

Crime is the side effect of gambling even though not every gamblers will commit crime to fulfill their gambling habits. For those who already addicted to gambling and have no more money to satisfy his addiction, they are susceptible to do crime.

Chances of an addicted gambler who has being losing money would turn to crime increases with the more debt he takes or more looses he makes in gambling as the person would like to have more money to gamble and this makes them to turn into the crime.

If that addicted gambler has a reason to gamble like paying debts and continuous gambling, they would really be desperate. When they are like that they are likely to look for ways to have more easy money and they are the ones who are not contributing towards the society. What do you think of that? More and more people are starting to enjoy gambling, but the greediness is overwhelming, I hope no one would get into that because it would be hard to stop. They should learn that it's not always like that, everyone can overcome it.

Yes.That's what most of the gamblers do.If they cannot control their addiction and don't have enough money to sustain their gambling addiction,they may force to do things that are definitely against the law.Since they are not in their good thinking,they are not aware of the crime that they have done.I suggest to stay away from gambling if you think you cannot control your emotions most of the time.

Yeah maybe if the influence of gambling is already very bad for them. they can do anything to return to gambling like what drug addicts do. because addiction is a disease. You must have heard gambling addicts or drug addicts steal money only to get back to their addiction activities right?

Yes, that is right. The gambler needs to know this, so it doesn't have to become addicted. The player will not only lose the money but perhaps, the life and the family too because I heard that there is a person that gets lost everything he has and he cannot stay to lives. So this is the important lesson for every people especially for a new gambler, try to not playing gambling every day because it's too dangerous for your life and your money.

There's incidents where gambling addicted person do some crimes like stealing money or things for them to continue playing, as their  minds already been corrupted of this habits, there's no excuse aside from being too much engaged and they can't have any additional capital so they can do things like this to satisfied their lust and to continue playing.

It is right that online gambling from home does not affect the society and not cause for crimes but the problem is that when they have no more money then what they do. Do they quit gambling? I don’t think so because once they taste the greed for money in gambling they will obviously make their way towards physical casino and their worst lie starts from that point.

Most people that gamble do it occasionally and do not put their lifestyle at risk by gambling, so it is very clear to me that such people are not going to commit any kind of crimes because of gambling, the problem gets more complicated when we are talking about a person that is addicted, and as we know such a person is going to do everything they can to afford their addiction, in that case I think it is possible to say that gambling may have a harmful effect on those people and society in general.

However as a person that strongly believes in self determination, I really do not like to blame external factors when it comes to taking responsibility for your actions, so if those people are committing crimes then they are the ones responsible for that and not gambling.

Gambling and crime are not the samething buddy. Crime is the act of committing an offense which is punishable by law. Gambling was signed into the law bill and gambling is a game of chances not offense. Like I said early everything lies on every individuals understanding and maturity. Meanwhile, you don't need to gambling in person where you will force or pressure to leave without taking your money cause the online gamble site are there.

Gradually gambling leads to crimes. In my country gambling is not legal and I myself do not believe in online gambling because there are many scammers and fraud as you mentioned. Anyway for gambling online or traditional you need money and when you have no money for gambling and face money problems you will do anything to get some money for gambling.

I admit that every gambler is not criminal but as gambling is not assumes positive therefore people stitch evil things with gambling and it is a fact that gambler especially in my community doesn’t have any respect and all the people keep distance from a gambler. Many gamblers become criminals too when they are gambling addicted and that is the reason that crime is assumed as part of gambling.

Do i find successful in gambling.? Definitely not! I cant find successful in gambling . gambling gives you sick . without money you can't gambling and gambling can broke everything in yourlife because you life is gambling.

Those who are addicted chances of they turning to criminal increases because in addiction every time you can only think is gambling and to gamble you require money. You cannot win every time from gambling and thus results in the losses and to get more money people start doing crime.

I agree. Gambling is just a business like any other business around. If an enterprise is associated with crime it's because of the human factor, not because of the enterprise itself. There are musicians transporting cocaine in violin cases, chemistry teachers manufacturing illegal drugs, doctors engaging in black market organ trading etc. And, on the other hand, there are poker players like Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel and Antonio Esfandiari  who are not associated with any criminal activity, but they are gamblers in every sense of the word.

This statement made me laugh hard. It sounds similar to when someone associate money laundering to cryptocurrencies only! As if money laundering never existed before cryptocurrencies! It is just a social thinking process and nothing else! Criminals will do whatever they want to, wither in vicinity of a casino or elsewhere. There is not even one casino in my country, does that lower down the crime rate or prostitution rate? NO! Gambling is just a business! Children go to amusement part to entertain themselves, adults go to casino to entertain themselves! As simple as that!

This social thinking about gambling is bad due to several factors like religion. However, if you look at the facts that how gambling had turn around the economy of a country, I will encourage you to please read the below threads,

How gambling can effect the economy of a country [Part 1 - USA] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4308093.0)

How gambling can effect the economy of a country [Part 2 - Macau] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4324507.0)

This dude is only just focusing out on the negative side of Crypto gambling sites without even thinking the positive ones that it do contribute on ones economy.
Money laundering and prostitution does exist ever since as long theres money it would always be tied up with it.

It is true that it help the economy as well. But as a human being one should have control on them self so that they do not get addicted to any such thing where people have become homeless while gambling. Obviously it is their own mistake but many countries have banned the gambling because of the reason that people may just ruin them self or just trying avoid if any money laundering might happen.

Each country do have its significant views towards gambling either they are solely protective with their citizens or just minding on how gambling businesses
will benefit their entire community without minding possible effects or any other things attached to it.

Gambling addiction is on players mistake gambling is just for entertainment and not for money making.

Right.If gambling has its own negative aspects,i'm sure it has also its positive aspects too.Gambling gives higher chances to people to win huge amount in an instant and if this amount will be used at a good purpose at home,i'm sure it can even increase a family's economy.But on the contrary,gambling may also cause harm to the lives of the people if the people themselves became a slave to gambling.Eventually addiction will take place and that will push the people to do such things that are already illegal just to satisy their own wants.

I do not really think it is the gambling directly that makes people go to a life of crime.

I think as you can see from a lot of Hollywood movies as well the trouble is not that someone who loses money in gambling goes and steals some money to repay, it is the people who he gambles with that makes it happen. There are not so good people who help people gamble, there are underground casinos and sportsbooks that are illegally run and the people who own those places have a lot of hired gun that will get the money from you one way or another.

If you get a loan from a bank and you do not pay it back, bank posses your things and sells it of an auction. If you gamble in an underground casino and lose, you will have to pay the debt or they will break your arm or leg or something. So it kinda depends on where you gamble not if you gamble.

When they are out of funds in gambling they are tempted to do the crimes as you said but it is not because of gambling it just happened because they need to repay the debts to the banks so we can call the banks also causing crimes among the people?

Not right ! so the fault is from the individual who is doing these kind of things.

Casinos mostly associated with crimes in which the common of it was drugs money to be circulated in the casino. I don't know how it could possibly be done but it was only based on what I have understood. When it comes to online casino ot online gambling I don't see any crime related activities, though there might be just like scams but only limited to unregistered sites.

Don't know about drug dealers but Prostitutes are normally attracted to entertainment/relaxation spots. So it is not really about gambling.
It also depends on the owners of gambling centers and country's laws ...If they don't want  Prostitutes there, they definitely won't be allowed.

There are bunch of people who come and go at the casinos and you probably don't know each one of them.
Most people who enter casinos are riches and famous people while some of them are from many different cities.
It is also the best place to deal with something that we don't know and beyond our limits.

This is 100% truth, it's like drug addiction precisely or almost any addiction. The fact that they think they can prey on casinos customers is because of that and also because they take some sort of have fun without limits mindset which often leads people around there to use their products or services(Drugs, prostitutes).

Are criminals wrong? They definitely know what they are a doing. Even if it's not the casinos fault if they are not linked with them it certainly is a consequence of having one nearby.

You must be right on this mate as i believe Illegal Drugs,Prostitution and even kidnapping is happening inside casino,theres alot of cases in asia when mostly chinese nationals are abducting each other just to claim money from the victims family

But ofcourse we cannot take this from this institution sinc gambling is also illegal i some other part of the world.

Though i am also thinking that government officials are part of this illegal activities becaue this involves lot of money

Yes it depends on the gambling place. as well as yourself when you want to avoid crime. gambling is an entertainment so we should feel rilex and freedom. gambling is not the trigger for crime, because it all depends on each person. believe that when we consider gambling to be an entertainment we will feel such extraordinary comfort. do not put pressure on us because we will only exacerbate the situation.

Underworld casinos are illegal so if people going for that casino also need to be bad ass or you will get eaten by others,but if a casino is legit and approval from governments then it is not possible to have such things and if you found any you can call the security.

Illegal places do always exist. If theres legal ones then there would be illegal too so I'm not surprised that these kind of places is lurking somewhere which its somehow
expected that all illegal doings is already tied up.I agree that if you do let yourself come to that place then better be prepared on what would you encountered and would see with your very own eyes.

Right.I have seen some cases wherein some casinos have been a hiding place for some illegal acts but it greatly depends if the owner of the casino tolerated those acts.Maybe he is also making money from it so he is fully aware about those crimes.So it would be more wise to choose gambling sites that are not surrounded by those illegal acts if you don't want to be a part of it.

Actually it is a very dangerous factor for a gambler and already has a hard addiction. He could not stop for a moment to gamble and think about how to get money in a good way, in my country there were many such events. They steal by coming to people's homes every night and pointing sharp weapons at threatening people who have a home, but his bad luck comes when the police are able to arrest him and it turns out he is a gambler. So the government made a strict regulation to regulate gambling in my country, especially gambling online.

Its not gambling alone that make them do crimes  . i believe those addict gamblers do also use drugs and other forms of addictive stuffs , thats why that can result for them to do other deadly crimes because if they are already high . they are out of their minds and they are not afraid anymore  .  they can even endure any pain   that they will recieve  .

Playing on a legal and trusted site will make us comfortable playing gambling.
I recommend 777coin to play gambling, find a place that is comfortable and safe so that we can play calmly.
Playing on a legal site will make us avoid crime. Choose the best then the results will be good.

Well some casinos may be promoting such kind of activities, but I think that gambling is not only played by wrong people, I can see a lot of people who play ambling and their only reason is to release their stress after day work. They always play gambling in a pleasant way and under their budget. I think we should also highlight the god aspects of gambling.

This must be a hard truth about how the legal system is working and leading to support the growth of illegal things. By considering all these, I just want to take a resolution of not at all gambling in physical casino so that I will not support them in any means.

The thing you do mention isn't a good aspect of gambling yet it has nothing to do with the people who do engage with it and the other things that correlates such as those
illegal activities beyond its vicinity. As long money is involves these things are really inevitable,so as a player then you should be aware on your surroundings because not all the times you
would really be safe even you are just playing on that place but well if you are only a small wagerer then you shouldn't mind at all.

Logically, it has nothing to do with gambling. Gambling is a place to gamble, whatever the intention of someone who comes to the gambling place they only intend to get win or an entertainment depending on the type of person. However, as far I know gambling is always synonymous with criminal act. Maybe not everyone knows about that, because the type of person is always different when he goes to the casino, for those who only intend to gamble or have other intentions because he knows the ins and outs of the casino.

People in casinos are obviously rich or if not, have plenty of money to gamble with so thats why illegal transactions usually done in that place. Gamblers are also always stick on a drug dealers image because of the amount of money they are playing both.

Crime has been there since the inception of this world and casino or gambling did not increase it.  I cannot think of any connection between the two of them and because of that I don't think gambling  do contribute to crime as crime is a thing of the mind.

when we hear the word gambling the first thing that come thru our mind is money . the gambling platform and the gambler have a money , that is why criminals will target them but the crimes that are related to gambling were only few when compared to other crime's out there  . maybe because some casinos are guarded or have a high security and gamblers are also cautios  in which criminals cannot effectively penetrate them .

Criminals are looking for money and most of the lust that people have inside needs money to gained, there's cases where gamblers got robbed
after playing common stories about big winners been victimized by this robbers around, there's also cases where gamblers who got out of money
learned to steal things to sell and gamble again, this incidents which relates to a gambling practices.

There is a correlation between gambling and crime, and we know that when somebody loses the money in gambling, he can do many things to keep playing and one thing that he can do is steal other people money so he can use that money to playing gambling games. But that does not always happen because maybe that person still has another money in his account, so he only needs to withdraw some money to continue playing gambling.

In certain situations, a gambling addict will surely find difficult conditions where he has no more fund that can be used to fulfill his gambling needs. Well, at such times, it is possible for a gambler to have a negative thought to commit a crime, whether it is misdemeanor or the serious one, because there is a strong urge to do gambling. This can happen even though the number may not be so much.

Some category of people give importance to gambling as a fun, and the same makes them spend those winnings on some activities that too will give him the pleasure. In specific they can spend on some prostitution or into some other fun factors. At some instances this leads to crime, so gambling doesn't have a crime effect but the people into gambling at times use on.

Exactly, gambling did not increase it because its already normal in every person to be more greedy and most of them was not be able to control that greed and make bad things to people. Gamblers are just want to have fun and earn money, there might be correlation psychology yes, but technically not.

Rarely gambling increases crime but there has been a few isolated cases. These cases come from violent people which may have gotten drunk and lost a lot of money in the casino so they are more suspectible to crime than other persons. That is why lately the security of casinos have improved a lot, offline casinos.

Gambling or casinos are recreational activities it part of the gaming industry, in other words it is made for fun but since money is involved it's is considered as a dangerous game and risky game.

As it was defined it is a recreation activity for fun however if you exceed to your limit and became desperate to recover your loss a risk and danger may come and one thing of it is doing criminal activities, let's not go too far... a good example is here in the cryptocurrency industry if you're taking a look at some lending threads you can find a person who wants to lend an amount on purpose of wanting to recover his/her loss in a gambling game and after that he/she will disappear or "maybe" doing scams like selling illegal items, offering illegal, activities, etc.

But it's the person itself how he/she will going to handle this, we should only invest in gambling what we can afford to lose.

In rare cases right,but normally people tend to think that people who are going to casinos are bad guys who maybe drug addicts and commit many crimes in their life so these kind of thoughts were striking on people mind even if the crime is happening all over the world.But online gambling evolution may change this kind of though among the common people.

The first point of aguiment might be true in some parts of the world but I have not experience such condition here in my country. What we see here in connection with prostitution is Hotel and events center. Although my point might not be applicable to yours and every other person who must have responded in the other way round contrary to my view. But other crime such as criminality could be linked with gambling because some people may go to the extent of stealing for them to participate in gambling.

Everyone has different opinions in this matter. I bet there will be no one common opinion that will rise from this thread. Me personally, I know and I believe that morality depends on every individual but,,, I believe that the absence of temptation will not cause a person to do something which he has no means in commiting. It is true, casinos are a den of robbers, prostitutes, addicted gamblers and the likes and it is there available even to those who have not yet tried. There are countries who do not even allow casinos to be launched, because they know that having it will only make way to a different kind of crimes, so my answer is "Yes", it does contribute.

It's possible to bread some criminals in a casino, even mafia was also there in case of bad situations. Casinos are the best place to do gambling and risk more money because it's very formal in there, you need to be intellectual and logical. You need to bring your own mathematical way and wait to shake out in your favor.

Since, it's a money-related place, crime is not impossible. Addiction or love in the money can cause worst situations and do some crimes. Sometimes the owner of a casino can be a mafia dealer or a druglord, since they've nothing to do in life (because they're rich enough) so i think gambling is one of their entertaining activity in life.

That is what I think before because when someone doesn't have money, the first thing that is on his head is how he can get money, and the negative minds will come to him and said that stealing the money from a man in front of you will be okay. But it does not happen to all gamblers who lost their money because I think some gamblers will realize his loss and decide to leave the places and not come back in that day.

I think the crimes are always not happening in only the gambling it spread all over the world so making the gambling will be the only reason for increase of crimes will not be a right decision for my opinion.

Yes I totally agreed with that arguments,criminality’s are activated in most casinos worldwide.i remember for twice i had been approached by someone inside casino if i want slut women or even drugs so i know that this is happening inside.ofcourse they are safe to do anything inside the casino because of the securities given by corrupt government officials

Illegalities are present already since before but it came into the situation that is more rampant and very showing to the public. That's because they are protected by high rank officers in a certain place. Giving protection money and some giveaways will surely satisfying. It can be hardly to stop cause they are will established and a lot of supporters. It is between our self to stay away from those criminality's.

I think the people will not trust the gambling till now because gambling is like and Dark Side of illegal business they are thinking like that but instead of gambling there are lots of good peoples are here in a good society so we don't make a critical situation like putting some cases that gambling will be the only reason of crimes is not a good way to address gambling.

Criminality and immorality exist even without gambling around so i think its not right to point fingers in this area while the bad activities is the real issue

But we cannot take account that some casino’s offers this kind of illegal thing but it depend on you being person if you will grab that vices or not so still casino or gambling specifically has nothing to do with this in full effect

Yeah if that is really the case there is not much one citizen alone can do. The only possible way to go is make your constitutional voice heard to policymakers, so they reinforce law enforcement and transparency in such places.

In third-world countries that would be a lot more difficult to do due to the really high rate of corruption. In the rest of places depends on how many people participate in such campaign.

It's not just the casino but most criminals are hiding in that place to find their target/clients. But the truth is criminals are everywhere no matter where you go. It is up to the person if he/she wants to take account of being a criminal because some of them are just driven by their desire/reasons. So this means that it is a case to case basis for each individual.

Observing that behaviors, yes criminalities are being covered inside the casino house especially those big business where government are giving
them so much protections due to the taxes that they've giving, they are untouchable dealing with other illegal act as they have their own securities
inside, a deep additional problem which is just ignored inside the gambling house.

Yes, there are two types of people are involving here : First one is high rich people who are basically the gambling houses and they may go for any extreme for doing their business. The second one is depressed gamblers. After losing big they may alternate entertainment which may be in any form including drugs or girls. When these two types of people are merging at some point means anything may happen and legal things will be followed or not is not a question there.

Everyone is the target for some criminal action, we cannot stop them from doing that especially if they see opportunities to take advantage with you. Criminals are everywhere, even if you’re in the house you can still be the target, gambling makes no big impact on this because of few gamblers are being robbed before but we must still be on the safe place everytime we play.

Well, every casinos got a high security personnel inside or even in the vicinity to avoid these instances so there's nothing ro worry about in that matter, the only problem is when you go outside already. As a mitigation, hire a body guard if you can afford simply because it's for your own good and besides it is chaper to give monthly salaries than losing money from a robber ;D. But if you can's afford to do this then there are still ways suitable for you like always having a taser gun or a pepper spray and these will be more efficient if you've got some even a little bit of self-defense techniques.

A lot of syndicate are inside the casinos, and trying to deceive gambler because they know that gamblers are greedy. I experience to see someone is being force to have a loan and his collateral is his own car, until now its happening and i think its hard to stop this because big people are behind this one. Gambling is not the source of criminal but it can be a good place to see such criminals.

That's the routine for big casinos and to protect them.
Being committed to work illegal will just their choice, but it is sad that it propagate into young minds which they are more eager to deal with those criminal activities. It is a big concern to the community and it may some authorities to take action for these before it go worsen. 

Gambling will not be the most reason for criminality, but gambling can make people can do crime in anytime and any places. But we have seen in television that for searching money for playing gambling, people use crime like steal other people's money so then they can go to gambling places which are hiding somewhere because they want to make money from gambling. We cannot deny this and perhaps, in another country, they still doing this to continue gamble.

Gambling casino are the not the places for the innocent to go and play there. Those who are criminals and cheaters do visit casino more often  and this is expected too. Obviously when people visit to casino they will also be tempted to take drugs or slut women. Even i have seen casino where the owners do provide all such facilities. 

so the mistake is not the gambling or casino itself? but to their individuals? those people have come with evil caracters.
then they screwed up, and then people call that crime because of the gambling effect? No Way!

Agree, but in my opinion for those who play gambling just for fun, it seems like they won't go crazy doing such a crime. But for chronic addicts it is possible to commit a crime, with the reason that they can still gamble with the results of steal etc. Gambling is indeed vulnerable to negative activities such as crime, but if we can still think wisely and be able to control it, then crime can be avoided.

Do not blame gambling is a trigger of the gamblers to make crimes it's depends of their self control and self discipline how to bring their life as gambler.

Also think this boils down on the kind of business and personalities of the business owner. .  Certain kinds of people tend to avoid owning gambling business while the liberal minded ones do not have with gambling, games and permitting of love peddlers.

No one is doing crimes without their involvement mentally but they are in need fo money so they were ready to do anything to make money but I don't think people will make money and spend everything into gambling.

Criminal and gamblers are totally different and we should not mix the both. A criminal can be a Gambler and a gambler can be a criminal too, but these are not interrelated and we cannot say that crime is because of gambling, as gambling has nothing to do with crime.

I don't think that casino and gambling is a hinding place for gambling and casino and I do believe that some people are really doing legitimate business in gambling and casino.  Many people take gambling as one of the bad habits but they are many people making money from it.

That will happen to people who have a lot of money, and they build a gambling place so gambler can come to their places. This will give them more and more money because every gambler who lose their money, it will turn into the income to the owner. But for gamblers itself, it can attract them to make a crime because they need money, not because they use that money for their needs, but it's only a way to them to continue to playing gambling.

One point that makes millionaire to gained more, instead of going to other casinos they build their own and attract more gamblers to play around
the more players to visit the more money will flow, they just need to accommodate all the needs gamblers may asked, and like what you have mentioned the more the gamblers got attached, the more aggressive they become, to the point that they will do crimes just to keep coming back.

there are lots of crimes will happen in this world it will not being supported by cryptocurrency at anytime and people will always use cryptocurrency for good use only and the crimes are always happen for normal paper money I strongly believe cryptocurrency has good way of development.

Personality can only be changed if the person in questions morals character is questionable. This is because if you are a discipling person no matter what comes your way money can't and should not change who you are.

a huge crimes were happen in this world but cryptocurrency are not the only reason for all this things we need to more careful in that state but cryptocurrency had been used by a lots of good people so I don't think it will be the reason for crimes.

Yeah, for people who have a lot of money, they can easily to build their own casino. I watch a movie about the casino have related to the crime too because they have the other business as a drug dealer and turn over some of the profit into the casino and run the business.  Maybe in real life, we can find about that but I am sure that they will hide their illegal activity from the law.

When they don't intrude the activities of others then nothing wrong to be here but in real life casino we may see some crimes as well buts its happening at rare occasions since we got strict regulations in many countries.

All your saying might be right but it not all gambling site owners that's into hard drugs and most offline gambling site are those that are usually into hard drugs because there's no point in doing for online casino owner due the potential and the opportunities crypto currency. Concerning the statement of gambling turning people into criminal, you're wrong because everything a man does is the reflection of his thought, one of the golden rules of gambling is never gamble without knowing the rule and those gamblers that turn into criminal definitely dont know the rules and regulations of gambling but after the money involve.

Regulations are really needed thing to keep the gamblers safe. We as a whole realize that gambling investment is one of the path on how individuals procure benefits today in crypto. However, as a keen player we should likewise realize that this betting isn't the most ideal approach to gain. It has favorable circumstances however the disservices are very generally concern. We should know on how this betting may influence unadulterated conduct in gaining.
We should realize when to stop and avois being avaricious in benefit. In that, we will dodge negative acts that may lead us to make wrongdoing.

For me, it also depends on the casino. Casinos that have a good name I think does not have a black secret like this or hiding some secret agenda inside. Maybe there are some casinos that are not respectively that popular and maybe those casinos are the ones does have some secret agenda inside it. And those criminals for sure also choosing a casino that they think that has no reputation.

Gambling is a big industry contributing good to the growth of bitcoin as well other digital currencies. Crime happens even when there is no gambling. Gambling is completely different and the earnings made in large volume at times will lead to crimes. This all happens when the person doesn't know what to do with the money earned out of gambling. In reality this is very small in number.

Exactly, you cannot blame gambling because people commit crime, before we gambler we already knew the risk of losing and we should be responsible enough when we are gambling, if we loss, we should accept it, crimes only happen when a person gambles more than he can afford to lose or he is already addicted in gambling. It's just about self management, if we don't know that then we should stay away from gambling.

It would be rare such scenario would exists or only thing it can happen is with people who are addicted to gambling and has being losing money and require more money to play but do not have it. Thus in such scenario they would be stealing money from others in order to play.

There has been scenario were individuals steal money from family members all in the name of gambling. The truth of the whole thing is addiction to gambling leads to crime either direct or indirect crime; meaning steal from family members to gamble  or outright steal from neighborhood just to gamble.

That bad habit can turn into a good one, but it will not last longer since we know that if we earn an easy money, it will also gone easily. There are some group/individual who will do everything just to have money, and in gambling they can easily create crime since they are too greedy for money.

This is the reason it is banned in many Muslim countries and few others. This is something that the state does not allow you because after you loose all your money in gambling, you have nothing left and there comes the responsibility of the state to fund you. So according to the paternity law, the state has the right to enforce the regulations upon you.

Some countries do make rules for banning gambling. It is true that sometimes the personal influence it has will make a gambler lose their emotional control and that can make a bad thing happen. But basically when a gambler can do good emotional control, they can play comfortably. Gambling games are a way to melt entertainment and for someone who is right they can get a pleasant sensation when playing gambling. All of this depends on someone's personality, good people will get good results and gambling is a way to relieve stress for good people.

You have a point on that. Heard so many stories about stealing owed to gambling addiction. I personally know people that did that, they are in fact not poor but in the middle-class family. They resort to stealing someone's property just to continue their gambling habit. How bad it is to ruin your family's reputation just because of your gambling addiction.

Banning gambling is not completely effective after the introduction of online gambling. This is the reason why crime rate and addiction rates are keeping increasing in most countries. Young generations are seeming highly irresponsible about their duties and everything whereas governments also helpless in this regard. Only spreading awareness against gambling alone may bring changes to those young generations.

The banning on gambling made by the government is totally ineffective and not only online gambling, even offline gambling still can operates on a country that has banned gambling. Gambling is something that cannot be eliminated among the public and young addicts will continue to grow because of high curiosity (not only about money) and those who do not have a good moral character will likely act negatively on their loss in gambling. High awareness and control are the main things to prevent gambling crime.

I agree - it's like the prohibition in the US in the early twentieth century, the forbidden fruit tastes better so banning gambling by the government will not eliminate it and maybe even encourage some people to try it ...

Returning to the main topic I think that gambling alone does not increase criminality, but it can be an indirect factor - people addicted to gambling who have lost everything will look for any way to get cash and get their money back and this can push them to crime ...

Indeed. Crimes are not just about playing gambling because immoral activities are caused by humans not by the game. Maybe with the presence of money associated with the game, people make crime to obtain easy money. Addiction as one of the immoral activities is due to the behavior of the people and not because they are playing gambling. Actually for me, there is no wrong thing on playing gambling as long as you know how to moderately play it just like what I do into the  online casino (https://to.crwd.cr/smtm) where I am up to wherein I just treat it as my leisure activity enjoying varieties of casino games on it specially when I first did my deposit in which I have received their welcome bonus reward

Gambling is just one place to create crimes, and I think this is more vulnerable for a crime since I believe some casinos are also part of those crimes. Its normal for the thinking of every person that if you do come to casinos, you are there to make money so whether you win or not your life is still in risk. This is why many gamblers are now switching online, because they don't want to experience this one.

For me as well there is no wrong on playing gambling. The people involve with it are the real ones. Basically, people are the one who play the game which can create the crime. Gambling must have been treated as a game that we enjoy but due to the greediness which is in nature of humans, crimes are created that turns to be blame into the game. I do like the idea oglf having that opportunity playing casino games conveniently through online and also the welcome reward you were talking about so I got interested to it.

in online or casino even though there is still a risk of abuse from someone. people who have bad qualities will certainly do evil if something bad happens to them. gambling does not turn someone into a demon, but if their nature is bad, then they will do crime, this depends on one's nature

I have watched tons of news that the cause of the crime was due to the gambling addiction of the suspect. I can say that it is contributing to the increase of crimes but there are some reasons behind it that it can always depend to the location.

Let's say in Location A: crime rates increased due to the uncontrollable behavior of gamblers because casino's can be found near them. They can't help themselves and they are coming to that point that they can commit such things. It is giving that factor but I don't totally blame the casino's but the behavior of those kind of gamblers.

I think there is a dark side of the cryptocurrency as well but this is true for almost everything around. Look at Elizabeth Holms. She founded Theranos and was something that made her a billionaire but then there have been allegations against her and she had to appear in front of courts. So it is all a game of mind. If you use it for the good, it is a blessing. If not, it’s a curse.

Well i think casino and gambling houses are the one who are the most benefited from gambling. We all know that casino wins more than the players so this is a perfect business if one has money to start a gambling website.
Gambling do comes as a bad habit in few parts of the world, but in some part it is considered as a good game for the people who have money and want to enjoy their time.

Indeed. There is no wrong in playing gambling as long as you can handle it by yourself by having self control to avoid trouble of creating a crime. You will surely like the convenience in this  online casino (https://to.crwd.cr/smtm) to have that opportunity of receiving that great bonus once you have done your first deposit on it.

Agreed, banning gambling is a  waste of time in this age. It won't prevent people from participating in foreign gamblings online. Governments could help turn people away from it like they do in some socities or  simply enlighten gamblers  on the danger of  gambling addiction  with possible ways to combate it.

That actually does mame sense. Of course the casinos don't have anything to do with those criminal services but there's a big percentage of gamblers (mostly which are rich) that use those services like prostitution and drugs. It is a stereotype, not all gamblers do that but it is kind of linked to eachother.

There is only dark side in crypto currency because the people that make it dark to some other people have a bad intention. Take for example, money laundering, drug dealers, funding terrorists activities, etc are all the activities that people with dark mind make use of crypto currency and make crypto currency look as if is purely meant for dark business.

Firstly, everything that have an advantage must have disadvantage but I wont say the dark side of gambling was prostitution, drugs etc. Besides, I wont say that the dark side of crypto currency was money laundering etc either because the people that abuse the potential of the system the one with dark intentions.

I have never seen physical gambling centers that engage in drugs dealing or prostitution. Maybe they don't do it openly or it could well be an exaggeration.
It could also be that the law enforcement agencies/government do not try trooting out lawbreakers.

People who are entering into the casinos maybe in the rage of doing crimes and also we can see more prostitution on underworld casinos sometimes in the regulated casinos as well but it is doesn't means that people who are gambling needs to be criminals.

This is a point of concern for the governing bodies. The general perception is that people involved in gambling deal with crimes and illegal stuff like drugs and since I have been part of gambling, I have seen people doing every illegal activity while they gamble. This is one among many reasons why the governments have banned gambling in my country which is very bad.

Our country has been taking hard line stance against gambling. There are couple of Presidents who promised to do that and so far they can't really stop it. Although it has some correlation (gambling + crimes), I don't think though that we can attribute everything to gambling. There are drugs, being poor and other such factors so don't blame it totally on gambling.

From my research I learnt that gambling was around since the 3000BC in Mesopotamia and we can't say crime does not exist in those days and like you said drugs and other factors are there to be blame which bad parenting are involve so the government of your country banning gambling is not the solution to stop or reduce crime rate.

Well, honestly, there might be some casinos which are managed and funded by mafias, so this can be true. Also, I've been to a casino before and it's true that there are some prostitutes that are trying to hook up with gamblers since it's a good potential client for them since most gamblers have a lot of money. So, it's not that far from reality that crime can be associated with gambling.

It can really be tagged up yet we know that people do have lots of money will really have the capability on engaging
into things like drugs and prostitution which makes these people do took advantage of that matter but if we do talk generally
where these places aren't really on default situation to have these things.It would depend on how they do impose
high restriction between on these places.

This is like saying that people who lost everything in trading go into crime...I doubt this is the case.
 Gambling owners can make the gambling environment decent and crime free if they want to. Some are probably encouraging that kind of environment to attract more gamblers.

Crime can be a side effect of gambling habits and can be done outside the gambling environment. Even though casino owners can make a decent and crime-free gambling environment, it's only a view from one angle. Because bad gamblers can commit crimes in other environments and bring the money into the casino.

We have the same point of view. A certain thing will become immoral once you associate it as an immoral. Just like drinking of alcohol, they say that drinking alcohol is bad and immoral but why do priest drink alcohol during their mass? I don't condemn the church. I just want to point out that everything that is too much is bane. Drink moderately as well as gamble moderately.

Just because priest use wine during the mass it doesn't mean it is immoral. First of all know the difference between a drug and wine. The wine that's been used in churches were alcohol free, you need to be clear in ancient times wine was being used with their food. The same is being portrayed, just because Bible saying about wine or prostitution doesn't mean it encourages such stuffs. Don't mix religion with some activities and state it is immoral.

This is where the "dirty money" comes from. It is said that the money you've earned from gambling is dirty money and that money usually do not last and will also be used quickly or gambled. The recent incident of crime in our country because of gambling happened in Resorts World Manila in 2017 where a gunman set the tables on fire and caused a stampede. I can't forget that.

Here in our country, all our casinos are government run and our government will not let any casinos to be the hideout of bad elements, casinos here are heavily taxed and this is one of our government's revenue-generating institutions, I don't know in other countries, maybe on casinos that are privately run.

I agree, well it is true that gambling owners can make the casino environment decent and crime free but once the gambler go out of the casino there is a possibility they can commit crime and I think it is already out of the control of the casino because it is already outside their premises. But we don’t know for sure some maybe going crime inside the premises.

yes, more or less like that, because gambling forces us to be winners. as long as we can't win, surely curiosity will continue to be in our minds, because not always gambling people have capital, they will certainly do various things to get capital to gamble.
STOP gambling ,, ;D ;D ;D

You may see gambling as a bad thing but others might see it as a good thing and they are using it to make money. I don't think those people doing crime to gamble are doing the right thing but that do not mean that is the only things that people do with their money. Crime is there and people do crime because of greed and selfishness.

I disagree on some parts. These kinds of shady deals happen on any place and not just on a casino or any gambling venue. Unfortunately, threads like these are one of the reasons on why there is a stigma towards the gambling industry as a whole. Surely, it created a place where addiction may be potentially acquired but everything stems from the decision of each individual, and not because of the venue itself.

It is actually relative to an individual's experience on how he/she views gambling. People who lost on gambling would generally view it as someone which is dangerous while others see it as a way of earning quick cash!

I think if casinos are legal to operate in a country, they would have to keep things regulated. Yet there could be activities that would be malicious from the casino side. In China and some other Asian countries, there is full restriction and ban on these activities amid these malicious criminal effects. Not all the casinos would go for something against the law putting their existence on the line.

maybe because in my environment whatever form of gambling is considered not good, because usually the effects of gambling are not good for people who do gambling and the environment

Its depend if how to handle gambling, if you play to much gambling games and spend to much time being addicted at the end lose a big amount of money of course its not good but if we have control and limit I think its okay to play gambing.

Of course that gambling can increase the level of criminal activities,because some gambling addicts start stealing stuff and scamming other people,in order to get money for their gambling addiction.This debate is pointless.But that fact doesn't prove that all gambling should be banned.A mass gambling ban won't solve the problem.It will only make things even worse.

Those who play gambling may not be criminals even if they lose everything in gambling. Criminals and gamblers are not inter related and I really feel sorry if people think gamblers are criminals. Gamblers want to earn quick money by spending/ risking their own money and they have no intention to hurt anyone.

On your questions, if casinos are the hiding place of criminals, I believe there is a possibility that this is true, and authorities are doing surveillance on who are the people in the casinos that can be considered to fall into that category, so it's much better to play online casinos it's more convenient and safe as well.