title: Endorsement of Criminal Behavior Amongst Offenders: Implications for DSM-5 Gambling Disorder.
abstract: The fifth edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual (DSM) has changed the scoring threshold for a gambling disorder (GD) from five criteria to four and eliminated the illegal acts criterion. The impact of these changes was examined with data from a correctional population (N = 676) in Ontario, Canada. The offenders completed a self-report survey that included the Canadian problem gambling index, the South Oaks Gambling Screen and the DSM-IV criteria. Changing the threshold from 5 to 4 improved the convergent validity for GD and resulted in an increase in the percentage of offenders diagnosed with a GD from 7.4 to 10.2 %. The results also indicate that the illegal acts criterion contributes to the convergent validity of GD. The evidence supports the change in the threshold from five to four, but also reinforces the importance of examining illegal acts when dealing with an offender population. The incorporation of illegal acts into the "lying to others" criteria appears to make up, to some extent, for the removal of the illegal acts criterion.
authors: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Rm. T524, Toronto, ON, M5S 1R8, Canada. Nigel_Turner@camh.net.|Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Nigel_Turner@camh.net.
authors: Nigel E
authors: NE
authors: Turner
authors: Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors: Randy
authors: R
authors: Stinchfield
authors: Healthy Horizons Consulting, Toronto, ON, Canada.
authors: John
authors: J
authors: McCready
authors: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Rm. T524, Toronto, ON, M5S 1R8, Canada.
authors: Steven
authors: S
authors: McAvoy
authors: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Rm. T524, Toronto, ON, M5S 1R8, Canada.
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Ferentzy
mesh_terms: D000066479:Criminal Behavior / Q000145:classification*; D057237:Criminals / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005715:Gambling / Q000145:classification* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D057566:Self Report
keywords: Convergent validity; DSM-5; Illegal acts; Offenders; Problem gambling