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Household crime costs $10.9 million
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Personal
and household crime cost
Americans $10.9 billion in
1981, including an average $40
in personal theft, the Justice
Department reported Sunday.
The report detailing the eco
nomic cost of crime to victims
showed that 75 percent of the
cost — $8.1 billion — stemmed
from household crime. The me
dian loss was $80 for a violent
crime victim and $40 for a per
sonal theft victim.
“The resulting estimates of
economic cost to victims may
seem low,” said Steven Schle-
singer, head of the depart
ment’s Bureau of Justice Statis
tics. “In presenting these
numbers, however, we do not
wish to minimize or overshadow
victims’ pain, suffering or emo
tional trauma, which cannot be
calculated in monetary terms.”
The median economic loss
for black victims of personal
crimes was $58, significantly
higher than for whites — $43.
Black heads of households also
suffered a higher median eco
nomic loss, $90, than whites,
$60.
The total economic loss from
household burglary was $4.1
billion; motor vehicle theft $2.8
billion; personal larceny with
out contact $2.1 billion and rob
bery $421 million — the highest
among violent crimes.
The report found that medi
cal expenses were $233 million
— about 2 percent of the total.
About 65 percent of the medi
cal costs resulted from assault.
In 1981, Americans lost
$10.1 billion from personal and
household crimes, and in 1975,
the loss was $5.6 billion, the re
port said.
The study calculated the vic
tims’ total loss by considering
theft of property and cash,
damage to property and medi
cal expenses based on a survey
of 60,000 households involving
132,000 people.
In other findings, the study
said:
—More than 93 percent of
the losses in 1981 occurred as a
result of crimes in which there
was no victim-offender contact.
—Damage to property ac
counted for $601 million in
losses — 6 percent of the total.
—Burglary-related property
damage was $176 million and
personal larceny without con
tact was $ 169 million.
—People who never married
had the lowest median eco
nomic loss — $58 — for crimes
of violence.
—Heads of households age
65 and older had the lowest me
dian loss from household
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