Crime and Mental Wellbeing
We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental wellbeing of non-victims. Property crime victimization and property crime rates show no such comparable impact. Finally, we estimate that society-wide compensation due to increasing the crime rate by one victim is about 80 times more than the direct impact on the victim.
Year of publication: |
2014
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Authors: | Cornaglia, Francesca ; Feldman, Naomi E. ; Leigh, Andrew |
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Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
Subject: | crime | mental wellbeing | neighbourhood effects | non-victims |
Saved in:
freely available
Series: | IZA Discussion Papers ; 8014 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 781212952 [GVK] hdl:10419/96730 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp8014 [RePEc] |
Classification: | I31 - General Welfare; Basic Needs; Quality of Life ; R28 - Government Policy |
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