Comment by moring

18 days ago

Is that NSW = New South Wales? I'm asking because Wikipedia lists New South Wales as a population of only 8.5 million, and those crime numbers are insanely huge relative to that.

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rpsw  18 days ago

The original paper would be: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16648

The part the article OP linked to would be based off the line:

  To put these percentage changes in terms of interest to policy makers, a 10% decrease in gambling expenditure in NSW would result in 4579 fewer ASS offences; 2867 fewer BESD offences; 1380 fewer BESND offences; 1398 fewer MVT offences; 2361 fewer SFMV offences; and 3793 fewer FRD offences 2 each year

cjs_ac  18 days ago

More than half of all physical slot machines in the world are in Australia.

  • initatus  16 days ago

    I can't find this statistic. Do you have a source by chance?

    The search this led me down was quite illuminating, so source or not I do appreciate your comment.

trollbridge  18 days ago

It is, and some policy proposals have put it forward as the single largest factor of increasing crime.