While the "state-of-the-art" in valuing crime control benefits has progressed considerably over the past 30 years, there is still no agreement in the literature about either the scope of benefits that should be considered or about the appropriate methodology to estimate these benefits. This...

Total cost estimates for crime in the United States are both out-of-date and incomplete.We estimated incidence and costs of personal crimes (both violent and non-violent) and propertycrimes in 2017. Incidence came from national arrest data, multi-state estimates of police-reportedcrimes per...