Criminogenesis, family victimisation and organised crime in gambling disorder

The intervention is aimed at capturing in particular the development of the criminological and victimological relationships that gambling disorder produces, in order to develop a significant database on the relationship between “game”, “gamblers” and “reference environment”. The analysis draws from the documentary and statistical collection contained in the international literature (the most important research) produced to date on the theme of gambling and the careers of gamblers - traditional and online - and the cryogenic relationships that result as well as the specificity of a local reality in central Italy (Southern Lazio). The survey was carried out through questionnaires administered in Southern Lazio to students, adults and the elderly in relation to the activities of the anti-wear counters (anti-wear services). Specifically, it appears an examination of the criminological and victimological components: the first, relating to crimes committed by playing in contexts or in ways deemed by the legal system of reference to be illegal (in reference to the Italian legislature); another dimension concerns gambling as a factor of criminogenesis, for the gamblers is to commit crimes to finance their bets (theft, robbery, money laundering, prostitution) or to favor the result (scams); and again, problematic gambling behaviors as a cause of victimization processes involving specifically the children of gamblers (abuse, child abandonment); finally, gambling as extrication, aiding and abetting, activities for commercial purposes (lawful and not) organised crime.