Seit der Legalisierung von Sportwetten in den USA im Jahr 2018 steigt die Kriminalität an Spieltagen um bis zu 70 %. Zu diesen Straftaten zählen Körperverletzung, Diebstahl und Fahrzeugdiebstahl, wobei die Zahl der Übergriffe um 60–90 % ansteigt und die Zahl der Diebstähle um 30–100 % zunimmt. Den größten Anstieg aller Straftaten verzeichneten Körperverletzungen – bis zu 93 % – nach einer Überraschung gegen die Heimmannschaft.

I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15270025251396530

From the linked article:

**Game-day crime rises up to 70% after sports betting goes legal**

In 2018, the United States Supreme Court struck down a federal law that blocked states from authorizing sports betting in a decision known as Murphy v. NCAA. Since that time, legalized sports betting has spread to 38 states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. It has also raised a whopping US$9.3 billion for those states through taxation of those bets.

Now, a new study from Rice University says it has raised something else too: crime.

According to the study, published in the Journal of Sports Economics, violent crime has risen by roughly 30-70% during games – from kickoff through four hours after they end – compared with the same time window before sports betting was legalized. **Those crimes include assault, larceny, and vehicle theft, with assaults spiking between 60-90% and larceny increasing 30-100%.**

The effects were most significant during home games and games with unexpected outcomes. In fact, **assaults had the largest jump of all crimes – up to 93% – after a home-team upset**. Games that were more stressful overall had a greater impact on crime rates.

„It is … worth noting that aggression may not stem solely from financial stress, as often observed in other forms of betting,“ said study co-author Wenche Wang. „We find recent evidence of increased crime associated with stressful games, such as those with close or tied scores throughout, as well as games that extend into overtime.“

The researchers also found a slight „spillover“ effect, with non-legal states bordering legal states also seeing a rise in game-day crime.

Not sure how credible the methodology is, but the results aren’t surprising. The rise in domestic violence around big football matches is well documented. Gambling leads to people being emotionally invested in games that don’t involve their team.

I’ve pirated sports for a long time. All the way up until, I’d say, the beginning of last year’s MLB season. My point is the ads you’d receive when watching, etc., were normally cam sites and other adult related things. Enlarging kits, etc.

The change was all of the ads or vast majority became betting and gambling sites. Not illegitimate sites, these were MGM, and major sports book, even now …. major gambling sites are paying sites that pirate sports to advertise their product because they know people use it.

The insanity that legitimate companies are actively participating in pirated sites.

None of this is surprising. I opened a bunch of sportsbooks on the east coast and I came across some insane people. I was threatened many times