Cost of Crime in Canada 2014 Report (original) (raw)

Counting the costs of crime in Australia: a 2011 estimate

2014

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Cost of crime: A systematic review

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2015

LS2 9LJ. S.Tubeuf@leeds.ac.uk. Tel: +44 (0)113 343 0843 2 Abstract Purpose: This study aims to systematically search and review all the relevant studies that have estimated the cost of crime of adult offenders. Methods: Fifteen databases were searched for published studies and grey literature. We included studies that estimated the cost of crime of adult offenders. Due to high heterogeneity results were synthesised descriptively.

The Social Costs of Crime and Crime Control

Beijing Law Review

There is currently no generally accepted method of estimating the costs of crime. After presenting the most commonly used methods of estimating crime, the authors attempt to explore the situation in Hungary. Taking 2009 as a base year, they recon the crime-related social expenditure accounts. The authors, with the help of other Hungarian research data and databases, have also taken into account the costs of the secondary social effects. The results of the calculations depend on the applied approach to crime and the interpretations of the social impacts of the delinquency. According to the authors calculations the social cost caused by crime was about 2.17 billion USA dollar: ($) (1.6 billion euro (EUR) in 2009. The authors deduct the sum that was drawn by the offenders as a benefit/profit from committing crime; therefore the crime caused 1.17 billion $ as a net social damage in 2009 in Hungary. The amount of 1.63 billion $ was spent on the crime control (e.g. law enforcement, judiciary, prison and crime prevention) in 2009. The results show that delinquency caused a total of 3.8 billion $ as a damage, or as an expenditure spent by the government in 2009.

The cost of firearm violent crime in British Columbia, Canada

Frontiers in Public Health

IntroductionThis study aimed to quantify the total cost of violent firearm-related offenses in British Columbia in 2016 Canadian dollars over a five-year period, 2012 to 2016. The purposes of this study were to estimate the direct costs to the health care system and indirect costs to society for violent firearm injuries and deaths; and to estimate criminal justice system costs pertaining to firearm incidents.MethodsHuman and economic costs to the health care system and productivity losses were calculated using health administrative datasets such as B.C. Vital Statistics and Discharge Database. Criminal justice system costs pertaining to firearm incidents were estimated by applying weighted average costs to aggregate expenditures using methodology consistent with that used by Statistics Canada.ResultsThere was a total of 108 deaths and 245 hospitalizations resulting from violent firearm injuries. The total estimated cost of all violent firearm crime averaged $294,378,985 per year; hu...

The cost of crime to society: New crime-specific estimates for policy and program evaluation

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2010

Estimating the cost to society of individual crimes is essential to the economic evaluation of many social programs, such as substance abuse treatment and community policing. A review of the crimecosting literature reveals multiple sources, including published articles and government reports, which collectively represent the alternative approaches for estimating the economic losses associated with criminal activity. Many of these sources are based upon data that are more than ten years old, indicating a need for updated figures. This study presents a comprehensive methodology for calculating the cost of society of various criminal acts. Tangible and intangible losses are estimated using the most current data available. The selected approach, which incorporates both the cost-ofillness and the jury compensation methods, yields cost estimates for more than a dozen major crime categories, including several categories not found in previous studies. Updated crime cost estimates can help government agencies and other organizations execute more prudent policy evaluations, particularly benefit-cost analyses of substance abuse treatment or other interventions that reduce crime.

The Social Costs of Crime

2011

The concept of crime embraces an extremely diverse range of activities. Even as regards the functioning of society and the economy there may be differing consequences from specific types of criminal acts. The taking of a life is clearly an irreplaceable loss not only for the individual, but also for society. Where offences against property are concerned the situation is not so obvious. If somebody steals or embezzles somebody else's money, or robs them of their possessions through the use of force, then the victim suffers an unquestionable loss, which is often far greater than the value of the property lost during the crime. For society as a whole, however, the loss of one member of society is a significant gain for another one of its members. Damage beyond the particular material losses is also caused by an increase in crime. If the state is unable to guarantee protection for possessions that people own, if they can be taken away from them at any time by using force or other il...