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Mission
The Gambling Research & Policy Initiative (GRPI) is an interdisciplinary research initiative that focuses on gambling awareness, behavior, risk, & gambling-related harms by conducting state, national, & international studies to better understand gambling, comorbidity, & pathways to gambling disorder across a broad population including understudied & high-risk groups.
For more information about the GRPI, please contact us at gamblingresearch@ecu.edu.
Current GRPI Research & Outreach Projects include:
- Gambling Motivated Crime/Suicidal Ideation
- Emerging Adults & College Students
- Voluntary Self Exclusion
- Understudied Populations
- NC Gambling Prevalence and Risk
Recent Publications
- Malkin, M.L. (2024). Applying General Strain Theory to the Relationship Between Strain from Another Person’s Gambling Behavior and Gambling Disorder. Journal of Gambling Studies.
- Malkin, M.L., & Stacey, M. (2024). Gender Differences in Gambling-Related Harms and Gambling-Motivated Crime. Journal of Gambling Issues. (forthcoming)
- Malkin, M.L., & Stacey, M. (2023). Gambling Behavior among LGBTQ+ Individuals: The Role of Gender and Gender Identity. Journal of Gambling Studies, 1-24.
- Stanmyre, J.F., Nower, L., & Malkin, M.L., (2023). Problem Gambling and Sexual Minority Individuals. Evaluating Influence of Age and Comorbid Mental Health and Substance Use Problems. Journal of Gambling Studies, 1-13.
The Gambling Research and Policy Initiative is housed within the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at East Carolina University.