Table 8.

Estimated Annual Costs of Maltreatment in Terms of Increases in Costs of Crime

Crime	Cost Per Crime ($)	Prevalence in Add Health	Estimated Effect Abuse Twin FE	Annual Per Person Cost of Abuse ($)	Total Cost of Abuse (million $)
A. Costs from Locher and Moretti (2004)
Assault	13,884	0.071	0.042	134	5,226
Robbery	13,139	0.020	0.008	24	936
Burglary	1,382	0.019	0.018	6	234
Theft > $50	277	0.033	0.006	0.38	15
					Sum: 6,411
B. Costs from Cohen (2004)
Assault	81,900	0.071	0.042	791	30,849
Robbery	271,440	0.020	0.008	499	19,461
Burglary	29,250	0.019	0.018	121	4,719
					Sum: 5,029

Notes: Lochner and Moretti (2004) present estimates of the social costs of crime and include incarceration costs. Cohen (2004) derives estimates from a survey asking willingness to pay for crime prevention. Estimated effects of abuse on probability of crime are from Table 5, Column 2. Annual per person costs are obtained by multiplying the cost by the estimated effect, and then multiplying by the incidence of any abuse (0.23). Total cost of abuse is estimated based on 39 million people aged 20–29 in 2000. Costs converted to millions $2,006.