Craving for Gambling Predicts Income-Generating Offenses: A Pathways Model of a Japanese Prison Population
| Autor: | Kenji Yokotani, Katsuhiro Tamura, Eiichi Kamimura, Yusuke Kaneko |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Sociology and Political Science Sentence length media_common.quotation_subject Psychopathy Prison Craving Impulsivity Young Adult Pathways model Japan Surveys and Questionnaires mental disorders medicine Humans Japanese male prison inmates General Psychology media_common Criminal Psychology Prison population Craving for gambling Prisoners Addiction Criminals medicine.disease Aggression Behavior Addictive Alcoholism Gambling Impulsive Behavior Income-generating offense Gambling disorder medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Gambling Studies. 36:459-476 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3602 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10899-019-09887-4 |
| Popis: | The links between gambling and criminal offenses have been frequently reported, but the pathways from gambling to a particular offense have not. Our study applied a pathways model to predict participants' income-generating, drug-related, and violent offenses stemming from their craving for gambling. The participants were 332 male inmates in a Japanese local prison. They answered questionnaires on gambling behavior, alcohol addiction, Internet addiction, impulsivity, and psychopathy. Their official records with information on their current offense, sentence length, number of imprisonments, and length of education were also analyzed. The results show that 38.55% (n = 128) of the participants had a probable gambling disorder, a rate of problem gambling at least four times higher than that among the general Japanese population. Furthermore, their craving for gambling predicted their income-generating offenses, but not their drug-related and violent offenses. Their craving for gambling can thus be linked to their financial issues, rather than their emotional and impulsive issues. The pathways model explained the path not only from addiction/psychopathy to gambling, but also from gambling to committing an income-generating offense. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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