Informing the Public Debate: Academic Research on Crime and Casinos

Informing the Public Debate: Economic Impacts of Casinos

Evaluating Crime Attributable to Casinos in the U.s.: a Closer Look at Grinols and Mustard’s “casinos, Crime, and Community Costs”

This paper examines problems in studying the relationship between casinos and crime, with a focus on a recently published, infl uential study (Grinols and Mustard 2006) which concluded that casinos cause a signifi cant amount of county-level crime in the U.S. Five key issues are examined. First, the most serious problem with their analysis is that it uses a crime rate that excludes the visiting...

19 casinos and crime in the Usa

The modern casino era in the USA began in 1931 when Nevada legalized commercial casinos. Since then, Las Vegas has grown into the premier casino destination in the USA. It was not until 1976 that commercial casinos were legalized elsewhere (Atlantic City, NJ). The latest wave of commercial and tribal casino development began with the Supreme Court’s 1987 decision in California v. Cabazon Band o...

The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime

The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between 1994 and 2009, the impact that casino legalization had on crime is examined. Our results show an increase in crime associated with casinos in some circumstances, but not others. Crime impact results are quite sensitive to data, ...

Does the Presence of Casinos Increase Crime? An Examination of Casino and Control Communities

This study is an analysis of crime in six new casino communities and compares the crime rates to those found in six noncasino control communities. The experimental and control communities were matched on 15 socioeconomic variables. The crime rates were calculated using resident population and population at-risk, which includes tourists in the crime rate calculations. Both Part I and Part II cri...