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We actually have data on the huge economic costs of crime to victims. But are we using it to inform policy?

John Roman@johnkroman.bsky.social

When we talk about crime trends, it is easy to get lost in the numbers and forget the people involved. One way to humanize trend data is to translate it into measures of the harm experienced by crime victims. Here is a little on how that works. www.norc.org/research/lib...

norc.orgCrime Policy Needs More Cost-Benefit Analysis, Including Harms to Victims | NORC at the University of ChicagoNORC's Live Crime Tracker now includes harm estimates to help facilitate sophisticated trends analysis and truly evidence-based policymaking.

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