Estimating the costs of crime in England and Wales
Abstract
The measurement of the costs of crime is an increasingly important topic in established industrial economies. Such costs imply a substantial loss in both tangible and intangible productivity, opportunity cost, resource use and quality of life. Here, we summarise the results of the latest research in the UK, and show that researchers are using increasingly accurate costs and indices analyses to allow the calculation of the costs of criminal activity.
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Citation
Albertson, K. and Fox, C. (2008), "Estimating the costs of crime in England and Wales", Safer Communities, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 25-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200800035
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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