Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/120962 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9311
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The costs of violent crime victimisation are often left to a judge, tribunal or jury to determine; leading to the potential for considerable subjectivity and variation. Using unique panel data, this paper provides compensation estimates that can help reduce the subjectivity of awards by giving a benchmark for the compensation required to offset direct and intangible costs. First, individual-area fixed-effects models allowing for adaptation to crime are estimated to assess the effects of violent crime victimisation on diverse measures of wellbeing. These results are then subsequently used to calculate the monetary compensation required to offset the wellbeing losses. Estimates allowing for the endogeneity of income suggest that A$88,000 is required to compensate the average crime victim. We find some evidence that compensation estimates are larger if the wellbeing losses of female family members are considered, and are larger for females if the perpetrator of the crime is a stranger rather than a partner, friend or relative.
Subjects: 
violent crime
victimisation
wellbeing
compensation
panel data
JEL: 
I31
K30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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