Gambling Related Crimes
  1. The review provided evidence that gambling-related crime typically consists of non-violent, income-generating offences. However, it also revealed that problem gamblers may commit violent crimes at a higher than expected rate, which may have been concealed by deliberate and unintentional under-reporting of gambling-related crimes.
  2. Committing financial crimes have gambling problems. – Court and prison systems are ill-equipped to identify or address the needs of these clients. – Some judges feel gambling is simply a “vice” and not an addition. – Few programs exist in prison for gamblers. – Attorneys can take steps to help those committing gambling-related crimes.
  3. When considering crime in the top five gambling cities, one point is unmistakable: Atlantic City is no picnic with its No. 1 spot for overall crime per 100k and the same ranking for both robbery.

Crime linked to gambling is a huge problem. In fact some police forces have complained about the increase in call-outs to betting shops. This often concerns violence linked to fixed odds betting terminals. This is just the ‘tip of the iceberg’ though and sadly people are going to prison every week due to their gambling problems. For one moment, just think of the cost to society of this and, of course, in your taxes.

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Scherer may have been a talented player, but his $350,000 dollars in poker earnings didn’t make up for the phenomenal amount of debt he’d managed to acquire over the years. With $90,000 in gambling debt, $40,000 in credit card debt and a $616,000 loan from his father for a new house – Scherer was under a lot of financial pressure.

In this section of the website we aim to outline media coverage of this problem and other harm that gambling can lead to, e.g. family breakup, loss of the family home, loss of job, even suicide. Yes, even suicide, as research tells us that the suicide rate for problem gamblers is higher than for any other form of addiction, e.g. illegal drugs. Simply click on the link below called ‘Crime’.

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NB: Before you do, don’t forget that these are the same companies who won’t take £5 and £10 bets off other people, because it has been deemed that they may win.

Once again, the regulators seem to think this type of extreme treatment of customers is ‘open and fair’. How about you?

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Click on the link below to read the daily stories about crime related to gambling that is occurring.