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

By K. Mccollister, M. French, Hai Fang. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Epidemiology, Sociology and Political Science

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Is It a Crime to Produce Ecological Disorganization? Why Green Criminology and Political Economy Matter in the Analysis of Global Ecological Harms (2013, background): “In this example, we can see that the one-time annual costs for US children, who comprise about 24 per cent of the population, for only four environmental health outcomes are considerable (McCollister et al. 2010).”
College Party Culture and Sexual Assault (2016, methodology): “Based on an estimated social cost of $267,000 per rape (McCollister et al. 2010), this implies an annual social cost of rapes caused by Division 1A games between $68M and $205M.”
Cost of crime: A systematic review (2015, methodology): “Only one study disaggregated these cost types in the original article (McCollister et al., 2010).”
How Do Right-to-Carry Laws Affect Crime Rates? Coping with Ambiguity Using Bounded-Variation Assumptions (2015, unknown): “For example, McCollister et al. (2010) estimate that the average costs (in 2008 dollars) of a murder is nearly $9 million, whereas the average costs of a rape, the next most costly offense, is $241,000.”
The Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program (2016, unknown): “We use the estimates of the cost of crimes for victims from McCollister et al. (2010) to impute the total victimization costs.”
The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime (2017, unknown): “Back-of-the-envelope calculations based on the estimated social costs of crime in McCollister, French, and Fang (2010) are shown in Table 10 and suggest that DNA databases have resulted in dramatic savings.”
Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment (2016, background): “24 21Neal and Rick (2016) show that most of the growth in incarceration rates in the U.”
Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health (2014, unknown): “McCollister et al. (2010) using contingent valuation techniques estimate that the cost per rape offence is $240,776 in 2008 dollars.”