Pathological gambling and criminality

Folino, Jorge Óscar; Abait, Patricia E

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“…8,9 The results in this study suggest that this is not universal because 2% of the sample did not exhibit 5 or more criteria; however, all studies agree on the existence of a clear association between pathological gambling severity and the presence of illegal behavior. 15,16,34,35 Moreover, the data show that illegal acts provide the lowest contribution to the reliability of the pathological gambling diagnosis in patients seeking help for pathological gambling, and this is invariant to the patients' sex and age. Nonetheless, the presence of this behavior may be relevant from a clinical perspective as a way to assess the psychopathology related to the disorder and the severity of the gambling conduct.…”

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Contribution of Illegal Acts to Pathological Gambling Diagnosis: DSM-5 Implications

Granero

Penelo

Stinchfield

et al. 2014

Journal of Addictive Diseases

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The purposes of this study were to examine the specific contribution of illegal acts to the diagnostic criteria of pathological gambling, to assess the possibility of differential item functioning across patients' sex and age, and to explore the existence of different clinical phenotypes based on the presence of illegal acts. The sample consisted of 2,155 patients seeking treatment for pathological gambling at the University Hospital of Bellvitge in Barcelona, Spain. The illegal acts item did not show different item functioning, and younger patients presented higher latent means than middle-aged and older patients, whereas no differences were found across sex. This item also showed the lowest discrimination coefficient; its exclusion would maintain satisfactory internal consistency for the remaining 9 symptoms and was poorly related to psychopathology and the severity of the gambling behavior. The relevance of the illegal acts as a diagnostic criterion appears to be limited, and its elimination from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, 5th edition, seems justified. However, illegal acts have implications for both the clinical and legal domains and contribute to increase the patients' impairment.

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Contribution of Illegal Acts to Pathological Gambling Diagnosis: DSM-5 Implications

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Penelo

Stinchfield

et al. 2014

Journal of Addictive Diseases

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“…Regarding prostitution and gambling, the same basic argument can be made: People correctly perceive that both of these activities are positively associated with involvement in criminality (Brown, Killian, & Evans, 2005;Cohen & Felson, 1979;Ellis et al, 2009, p. 56;Folino & Abait, 2009;Johansson, Grant, Kim, Odlaug, & Götestam, 2009;Sampson, Raudenbush, & Earls, 1997). Because nearly everyone wants to suppress victimizing forms of criminality, large percentages of people favor legislation that limits access to prostitution and gambling activities.…”

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The evolutionary neuroandrogenic theory of criminal behavior expanded

Ellis¹,

Hoskin²

2015

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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“…The above-mentioned psychopathological symptoms of problem gambling were combined in Endel's case. Studies confirm that pathological gambling is associated with violence in couples (Afifi, Brownridge, MacMillan, & Sareen, 2010;Folino & Abait, 2009;Pulay et al, 2008). Interviews with spouses of gamblers indicate that intimate partner violence is more common among gamblers than in the general population, and samples of problem gamblers have shown significantly higher rates of perpetration of severe physical assault than previous studies have reported (Korman et al, 2008).…”

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Familicide and suicide in a case of gambling dependence

Anderson

Sisask

Värnik

2011

Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology

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A former army officer unexpectedly killed his wife and two daughters by strangulation and afterwards hanged himself. Psychological autopsy (police investigation, forensic expertise, psychiatric records and interviews) showed how an ordinary young man, functioning well at work and normally in family life, had become a homicide-suicide perpetrator. The study brings out the complex of risk factors for suicidal crisis: violent and risk-taking behaviour, impulsivity, depression, attempted suicide, pathological gambling, debts, HIV, dismissal from active military duty and, finally, shame as a reaction to social decline. It remains unclear whether the motives for the familicide were predominantly altruistic or, rather, egoistic, i.e. behaviour characteristic of a major narcissistic suicide crisis. Evidently, there is no genuine altruistic/ hostile dichotomy; motives for this domestic homicide-suicide are mostly mixed or blurred. Although the perpetrator received psychiatric and psychological help, there were several identifiable deficiencies in the chain of care, with implications for possible prevention.

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Pathological gambling and criminality

Abstract: While reviewing the present study, research work was published that contributed to a better understanding of the association between pathological gambling and criminality and went further into their complex relationship and the formulation of explanatory models related to impulsiveness.

Cited by 37 publications

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Contribution of Illegal Acts to Pathological Gambling Diagnosis: DSM-5 Implications

Contribution of Illegal Acts to Pathological Gambling Diagnosis: DSM-5 Implications

The evolutionary neuroandrogenic theory of criminal behavior expanded

Familicide and suicide in a case of gambling dependence

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