In January 2023, FCRG deputy, Dr Lauren Smith, published an invited article entitled “The role of probation in supporting people who have experienced gambling and crime-related harms” for a special issue of Probation Quarterly.
Lauren provides a summary of key findings from a report published by The Howard League entitled ‘”Surviving, not living”: The lived experiences of crime and gambling’ (Smith, 2022), which involved semi-structured interviews with 22 people, 18 of whom were people who had committed crime as a result of gambling. Key areas uncovered include the need to ask specific gambling-related question pre-sentence, highlighting an disordered gambling in pre-sentence reports, and improved training for probation staff.
If you wish to read the article, you can download it here.
Smith, L. (2021). The role of probation in supporting people who have experienced gambling and crime-related harms. Probation Quarterly, 26, 45-49. https://doi.org/10.54006/QPRS9599