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The Costs of Crime to Victims

NCJ Number
145865
Author(s)
P A Klaus
Date Published
February 1994
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This analysis of crime costs to victims notes that crime victims in 1992 lost $17.6 billion in direct costs, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey.
Abstract

This data brief provides information on both the overall and the average cost of crime to victims. It also provides selected data on crime costs for different demographic groups in the U.S. population, by such variables as age, sex, and race.