ACCOUNTING FOR THE COSTS OF CRIME IN ASSESSING CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICIES

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Costs Of Crime

scholarly journals Predictive analytics for policy and practice: reflections from the criminal justice system

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Costs Of Crime ◽  
Good Investment

The current government is seeking to take the logic of an investment approach to welfare and apply it to other areas of expenditure. Like most sectors, the justice sector has a programme of work underway to improve its ability to make good investment decisions; in a justice sector context this primarily means applying resources where they can best reduce the long-term social and economic costs of crime. 

Findings on the Number and Shape of Criminal Trajectories

2019 ◽  
pp. 146-168
Author(s):  
David M. Day ◽  
Margit Wiesner
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Female Offenders ◽  
Assessment Scores ◽  
Code Of The Street ◽  
Costs Of Crime ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Criminal Trajectories

This chapter presents findings from select studies from the criminal trajectory literature to highlight the heterogeneity among offender populations and subpopulations, specifically female offenders and sex offenders. The chapter contributes a state-of-the-art overview of what is known about criminal trajectories and what this work tells us about the nature and pattern of offending over time within and across individuals. It describes and synthesizes the results of research in terms of the number of trajectory groups derived, their shape, peak, length, size, and crime mix and offers insights into the reasons for the variability across studies along these dimensions. In order to present the broad range of topics to which trajectory research has been applied in the criminal justice field, results are also presented on four novel areas: (a) patterns of risk assessment scores over time scores, (b) code-of-the-street beliefs, (c) cross-national terrorism, and (d) monetary costs of crime across trajectory groups.

Crime, Punishment, and Victim Distress

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Tontodonato ◽  
Edna Erez
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Costs Of Crime ◽  
Distress Level ◽  
Justice Process ◽  
Criminal Justice Process ◽  
Victim Perception

The costs of crime to victims are well-known and research has described the physical, emotional, and financial injuries sustained by crime victims. To date, however, there has been little empirical work which investigates the correlates of victim distress vis-à-vis victim involvement in the criminal justice process. The present study explores the role played by the criminal justice experience in victim distress level and the relative importance of victim, offense, and system participation variables. Multivariate analysis revealed that the level of distress following the victimization is largely a function of offense type, victim perception of sentence severity, and victim demographic characteristics of sex and age. Investigation of the factors predictive of current victim distress level indicated that receiving restitution and the level of distress following the victimization are most important, in addition to the personal characteristics of race and marital status. The implications of these findings for research on victim participation and for policy concerning crime victims are discussed.

scholarly journals The Role of Crime Victims under the Youth Criminal Justice Act

1969 ◽  
pp. 965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent Roach
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Young Offenders ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Victim Satisfaction ◽  
Costs Of Crime ◽  
Youth Criminal Justice Act ◽  
Young Offenders Act

The author analyzes the role of victim involvement in extrajudicial and judicial measures under the Youth Criminal Justice Act and the overall direction of victim involvement and its possible impact on the development of youth justice. Unlike the Young Offenders Act, victim concerns are specifically recognized throughout the Youth Criminal Justice Act. With respect to judicial measures, reparation should be interpreted broadly to include young offenders' genuine attempts to make good the harms they have caused. The concept of reparation should provide an equal opportunity to pay the costs of crime. With respect to extrajudicial measures, the role of victims is difficult to assess. Tlie author encourages greater utilization of family conferences, as this extrajudicial measure has enjoyed success in New Zealand in reducing youth imprisonment and producing significant levels of victim satisfaction. Victims may well play an increased role under the Youth Criminal Justice Act but the actual effect of both punitive and non-punitive forms of victim involvement will depend on how the new Act is administered.

Respondent Fatigue in Estimates of the Cost of White-Collar Crime: Implications From Willingness-to-Pay Surveys

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 1366-1389
Author(s):  
M. Cristina Layana ◽  
Jacqueline G. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Contingent Valuation ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Costs Of Crime ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Respondent Fatigue ◽  
Other Consumers

Contingent valuation (CV) methods are used in many contexts to estimate non-tangible costs, despite some indications that they may not be reliable. In criminal justice, CV has been used to generate “costs of crime” for street, violent, and white-collar crimes. This article explores respondent fatigue using both quantitative and qualitative indicators from an open-ended CV survey where respondents were asked how much they would be willing to pay to reduce certain crimes. Our findings reveal that willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce crime increases when both problematic response patterns and fatigue effects are accounted for in the calculation, indicating that fatigued respondents who also engage in straight lining are driving the WTP estimates down. We conclude by discussing the implications of our results for policymakers and other consumers of CV studies.

Fundamentals of Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Mears ◽  
Joshua C. Cochran
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice
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