{"id":202,"date":"2009-01-23T00:39:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T05:39:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T18:24:59","slug":"gambling-and-problem-gambling-among-recently-sentenced-women-in-new-zealand-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/topics\/compulsive-gambling\/gambling-and-problem-gambling-among-recently-sentenced-women-in-new-zealand-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling and problem gambling among recently sentenced women in New Zealand prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott MW, McKenna BG. <em>J Gambl Stud<\/em>. 2005  Winter;21(4):559-81.<\/p>\n<p> Ninety-four recently sentenced women prisoners were interviewed to assess  aspects of their gambling involvement, problem gambling and relationships  between gambling and criminal offending.<\/p>\n<p> A third of the women, on the basis of their SOGS-R scores, were assessed as lifetime probable  pathological gamblers and just under a quarter were assessed as probable  pathological gamblers during the 6 months prior to imprisonment.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/> For women prisoners, a preference for non-casino gaming machines and housie  were predictive of problem gambling. Relative to non-problem gamblers,  problem gamblers experienced higher rates of childhood conduct disorder  and current non-psychotic mental disorder.<\/p>\n<p> Just over a quarter of prisoners  and a half of the problem gamblers had committed a crime to obtain money  to gamble. Few women said their early offending or convictions related to  gambling. It was concluded that most women were &#8220;criminals first and  problem gamblers second&#8221; rather than people whose offending careers  commenced as a consequence of problem gambling.<\/p>\n<p> However, the extent of  problem gambling-related offending among the women prisoners highlights  the potential for comprehensive assessment and treatment programs in  prison to reduce recidivism and other adverse impacts of problem gambling  and gambling-related offending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott MW, McKenna BG. J Gambl Stud. 2005 Winter;21(4):559-81. Ninety-four recently sentenced women prisoners were interviewed to assess aspects of their gambling involvement, problem gambling and relationships between gambling and criminal offending. A third of the women, on the basis of their SOGS-R scores, were assessed as lifetime probable pathological gamblers and just under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compulsive-gambling","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internetandpsychiatry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}