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The Cost of Crime, vs the Cost of "Fighting Crime" For every dollar loss to crime victims, we spend $100 to "fight crime"
ANNUAL ECONOMIC LOSS TO CRIME VICTIMS IS $6.2 BILLION Just because the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that the economic loss to crime victims is low doesn't mean that it's a small problem. The average loss to an assault victim of $124 means that our additional loss to assault is only $67 million each year, but if you had been one of those victims, you most likely would have placed a higher value on your loss than that. Its estimate of $234 for each rape victim means that our additional economic loss to rape crimes is only $27 million per year, but if you had been a rape victim, you might believe that the actual loss is twice or three or ten times higher than that. Nonetheless, 65% of the $17.6 billion in annual direct costs of crime to crime victims is reimbursed through insurance claims, so the net economic loss to crime victims is $6.2 billion per year.
ANNUAL COST TO FIGHT CRIME EXCEEDS $600 BILLION The ponderous prison system, with a third of the men in the world who're behind bars (even though we're only 4.5% of the world population) costs in excess of $600 billion per year. Add to that the economic loss to the economy of removing 2.2 million men from the labor force and putting them in prison; increased welfare, medical, and social security costs to their families; 75% of the world's lawyers, each of whom reduces GDP by $250,000, living in the US;
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/coctv.txt U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief
The Costs of Crime to Victims: Crime Data Brief
February 1994 NCJ-145865
Full text with tables available from:
Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse
800-732-3277 (fax Number for report orders and mail list
signup only: 410-792-4358)
Box 179
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701-0179
The Costs of Crime to Victims
By Patsy A. Klaus, BJS Statistician
Crime victims in 1992 lost $17.6 billion in direct costs,
according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
These costs included losses from property theft or damage,
cash losses, medical expenses, and amount of pay lost because
of injury or activities related to the crime. The crimes
included in this figure are rape, robbery, assault, personal
and household theft, burglary, and motor vehicle theft.
Crimes include attempts as well as completed offenses.
*Economic loss of some kind occurred in 71% of all personal
crimes. These crimes included rape, robbery, assault, and
personal theft. For crimes of violence (rape, robbery,
assault) economic loss occurred in 23% of victimizations.
Household crimes of burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft
involved economic loss in 91% of all victimizations.
*In 1992, a total of 33,649,340 victimizations occurred.
Twenty-three percent of all U.S. households were victimized in
1992; the total number of households experiencing one or more
victimizations was 22,093,000.
*Economic loss occurred in 13,371,400 personal crimes and
13,515,140 household crimes--a total of 26,886,580*
victimizations. In 4.4% of these victimizations, the loss was
of no monetary value but involved the loss of something that
the victim regarded as having value. (*This number is larger
than the number of victimized households, since a household is
counted only once, regardless of the number of victimizations
that occurred.)
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Average loss per crime, 1992
Mean loss, all crimes* $524
Personal crimes $218
Crimes of violence 206
Rape 234
Robbery 555
Assault 124
Household crimes $914
Personal and
household theft 221
Burglary 834
Motor vehicle theft 3,990
Note: Data include all forms of economic loss, medical
expenses, and time lost from work because of the crime.
*Includes crimes involving no loss.
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*Among crimes that involved loss--
--About 12% of personal crimes and 24% of household crimes
involved economic losses of $500 or more.
--For personal crimes, 11% of whites and 15% of blacks lost
$500 or more. For household crimes, 23% of whites and
25% of blacks had such losses.
--In robberies at least $250 or more was taken from the victim
in about a fourth (26%) of all victimizations. Black
victims lost this amount in 41% of the victimizations,
and white robbery victims, in 19%.
--Lost property was not recovered in 89% of personal crimes
(90% for whites; 89% for blacks) and 85% of household
crimes in 1992 (85% for whites; 82% for blacks).
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Median loss for crimes of theft, 1992
All crimes, with or without loss $26
Crimes involving loss
Robbery $89
Theft 55
Burglary 50
Motor vehicle theft 3,600
Note: Data include only direct property losses and do not
include medical expenses or other costs.
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Victims receiving medical care, by type of crime and where
care was received, 1992
Health
Number At own, unit or
of victims neighbor's, first-
Type of receiving At the or friend's aid
Crime medical care Total scene house station
Crimes of
violence 1,419,940 100.0% 6.7% 30.1% 2.3%*
Rape 68,070 100.0 .0* .0* .0*
Robbery 355,570 100.0 7.4* 38.8 1.0*
Assault 996,290 100.0 6.9 29.0 2.9*
Note: Detail may not add to total because of rounding. Respondents
may have received medical attention at more than one location;
however, percent distribution is based on locations of medical care.
*Estimate based on 10 or fewer sample cases.
Victims receiving medical care, by type of crime and where care was
received, 1992
Emergency
Doctor's room at
Type of office hospital
crime or clinic or clinic Hospital Other
Crimes of
violence 11.5% 31.8% 14.1% 3.6%
Rape 20.4* 47.7* 24.7* 7.2*
Robbery 10.0* 25.5 9.8* 7.5*
Assault 11.4 33.0 15.0 1.9*
Note: Detail may not add to total because of rounding. Respondents
may have received medical attention at more than one location;
however, percent distribution is based on locations of medical care.
*Estimate based on 10 or fewer sample cases.
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Amount of loss, based upon crimes involving economic loss,
1992
Total No mone- $500
victimi- tary $1- $250- or Don't
zations value $249 $499 more know
Personal crimes
Crimes of
violence (a) 1,548,680 5.3% 57.3% 8.6% 12.7% 16.2%
Robbery 876,800 1.3* 60.0 9.1 17.7 11.6
Assault 639,170 10.3 55.4 7.6 4.0 22.8
Personal
theft 11,822,760 1.8 68.6 9.4 11.8 8.3
Household
crimes 13,515,140 2.2 53.6 9.5 23.8 10.9
Burglary 4,009,560 3.9 39.8 11.7 31.3 13.4
Household
theft 7,748,500 1.5 69.4 9.5 9.6 9.9
Motor vehicle
theft 1,757,080 1.4* 15.0 5.1 69.1 9.4
*Estimate based on 10 or fewer sample cases.
(a) Includes rape, not shown separately because of the
relatively few victims reporting monetary loss.
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*About 3l% of all victims of crimes of violence (robbery and
assault) in 1992 sustained some physical injury. Thirty
percent of whites and 32% of blacks sustained injury.
*For crimes of violence involving injuries in which medical
expenses were known, 65% involved costs of $250 or more.
These findings were similar for whites (65%) and blacks (66%).
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Total economic loss to victims of crime, 1992
All crime victims $17,646,000,000
Victims with losses
Personal crimes $4,110,000,000
Crimes of violence 1,362,000,000
Rape 33,000,000
Robbery 680,000,000
Assault 649,000,000
Crimes of personal theft 2,748,000,000
Larceny with contact 76,000,000
Larceny without contact 2,672,000,000
Household crimes 13,536,000,000
Burglary 3,970,000,000
Household larceny 1,750,000,000
Motor theft 7,816,000,000
*In 1992, 69% of the victims who were injured had health
insurance or were eligible for public medical services.
Seventy percent of all whites and 66% of all blacks had
insurance coverage or eligibility for public medical services.
*About 8% of all victims lost time from work in 1992 as a
result of a crime of violence and 6% as a result of a
household crime.
*About the same percentages of blacks and whites lost time
from work for personal crimes (whites, 5%; blacks, 6%).
However, when time was lost, 67% of blacks lost 1-5 days,
compared with 43% of whites. For personal crimes of theft,
77% of blacks lost 1-5 days, compared with 31% of whites.
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1.8 million victims in 1992 lost 6.1 million days from work,
an average of 3.4 days per crime
Percent of all victimizations with lost time
All personal crimes 5.2%
Crimes of violence 7.6
Crimes of theft 3.9
All household crimes 6.1
Burglary 5.2
Larceny 4.0
Motor vehicle theft 17.2
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The economic costs to victims reported in this crime data
brief include only those that had occurred before the
interview, which was 6 months or less after the crime.
Medical costs may continue to accumulate for months or years
after a victimization; these are not included. The victim is
not specifically asked about psychological counseling,
although some victims may have included this as a medical
cost. Increases to insurance premiums as a result of filing
claims, decreased productivity at work, moving costs incurred
when moving as a result of victimization, intangible costs of
pain and suffering, and other similar costs are also not
included.
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