Crime Effect of Gambling - Your thoughts!

[pixie85]

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.

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.

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.

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[Aikidoka]

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.

[XxGaMblerxX]

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.

[Betwrong]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[Hydrogen]

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

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.

[onrise]

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.

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.

[Nahl]

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

[galambo]

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. 

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.

[galambo]

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.

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.

[kryptqnick]

Actually, the bone of content here is that does gambling cause an increase in various kinds of related criminal activities?

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.

[gabmen]

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.

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.

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.

[jvdp]

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. 

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.

[milewilda]

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?

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.

[Wete]

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.

[mornabo]

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.

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.

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 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

[audaciousbeing]

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.

[DarkDays]

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.

[Grimjule]

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.

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.

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.

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?

[emberbekas]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[btctalk4life]

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.

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.

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.

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.