SOME NEW EVIDENCE ON THE SERIOUSNESS OF CRIME
SOME NEW EVIDENCE ON THE SERIOUSNESS OF CRIME
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1745-9125.1988.tb00845.x
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发表时间：
1988-05-01
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5.8
通讯作者：
COHEN, MA
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作者：
COHEN, MA
之前关于犯罪严重性的研究试图从公共调查中获得信息。本文报告了一种对犯罪严重程度进行排序的替代方法。在人身伤害事故案件中，实际受害者伤害率与陪审团裁决相结合，以估计痛苦、痛苦和恐惧。与犯罪相关的死亡率与对生命价值的估计相结合，得出死亡风险的货币价值。这些估计数与自付费用(如医疗费用和工资损失)相结合，得出受害者个人犯罪成本的总金额估计数。然后，这些美元估计值被用来对犯罪的严重性进行排名。尽管这两种方法得出的排名惊人地相似，但金钱估计表明，暴力犯罪对受害者来说相对更昂贵，而不是调查结果所暗示的。
Previous studies of the seriousness of crime have attempted to elicit information from public surveys. This paper reports on an alternative method of ranking the severity of crime. Actual victim injury rates are combined with jury awards in personal injury accident cases to estimate pain, suffering, and fear. Crime‐related death rates are combined with estimates of the value of life to arrive at monetary values for the risk of death. These estimates are combined with out‐of‐pocket costs (such as medical costs and lost wages) to arrive at total dollar estimates of the cost of individual crimes to victims. These dollar estimates are then used to rank the seriousness of crimes. Although these two approaches yield surprisingly similar rankings, the monetary estimates indicate that violent crimes are relatively more costly to victims than survey results might imply.