Gambling Motivated Crime: Social, Economic, and Criminal Consequences of Gambling Addiction

• In Event: Etiology and Correlates of White-Collar Crime

Abstract

This research explores the lives and experiences of people who have a history of compulsive gambling. Anonymous surveys are analyzed for types of social, economic, employment, and legal consequences people faced due to their gambling. Findings allow for fuller understanding of compulsive gamblers, as well as the different ways compulsive gamblers have been involved in the criminal justice system, primarily for white collar type crimes to support gambling and gambling related debts. Results are also considered based on gender.

Author

• Michelle L. Malkin, Michigan State University