Реферат: Legalized Gambling Essay Research Paper Through the

incidence of larceny per capita increased by four

hundred and sixty- seven percent. Incidence of all crime

combined increased by 138%- and this figure includes all

categories of violent crime, including rape and robbery.

Since Illinois legalized riverboat gambling, funding for

state police has increased 50%, or 100 million dollars per

year.26 Charles Cozic said, “The best estimates of

increased costs to Illinois’s criminal justice system[from

gambling] appear to range between 1.03-1.18 billion

dollars.” This amount of money is much more than the

state has received from the casinos. A high percentage of

these problems stem from pathological/compulsive gamblers,

who in 1990 cost the city of Chicago approximately $52,000

per year per gambler. They also cost the state of

Maryland alone 1.5 billion dollars in lost work,

productivity, stolen or embezzled monies, and state taxes

not paid.27

The compulsive gambler is the biggest problem that

gambling produces. Most compulsive gamblers live unhappy

and frightened lives.28 They almost always lose more than

they can win and since they are stubborn and childish,

they continue to chase the lost money in a bitter, angry,

driven mood.29 Also, they are always on the way down,

losing more and more money, and going deeper and deeper in

debt to banks, finance companies, relatives, and

friends.30 Compulsive gamblers lose their tempers

frequently, often striking anyone at any time.31 They

have been known to have no limits in obtaining money.

Murder, stealing, embezzling, conning, and even resorting