Table 1.

Description of inflation-adjusted unit costs for the criminal justice system, composed of the costs of policing, court, corrections, and criminal victimization, all reported in 2014 USD.

Component	Unit Cost	Description	Source
Justice system costs
Policing, incident-based	$5,053	Average tax-supported cost, estimated by the WSIPP using expenditure and workload data for jurisdictions in WA.	Washington State Institute for Public Policy (2014)
Court, including prosecution and adjudication	$8,128	Average tax-supported cost, estimated by the WSIPP using expenditure and workload data for jurisdictions in WA.	Washington State Institute for Public Policy (2014)
Corrections
Legal supervision, daily costs
Probation	$3.71	Calculated from average daily population at county-level divided by number of probation officers.	Longshore et al. (2007)
Parole	$11.40	Daily costs obtained from the CDCR	Longshore et al. (2007)
Incarceration, daily costs
Jail	$122.18	Daily average costs across California counties.	Board of State and Community Corrections (2012)
Prison	$140.49	Calculated from CA’s Annual Costs to Incarcerate an Inmate in Prison.*	Legislative Analyst’s Office (2009)
Victimization costs, by crime category			McCollister et al. (2010)
Murder	$800,575	The victimization costs include crime-specific derived medical expenses, cash losses, property theft or damage, and lost earnings because of injury and other victimization-related consequences.
Rape/sexual assault	$6,031
Assault	$9,444
Robbery	$3,581
Arson	$12,431
Larceny/theft	$521
Motor vehicle theft	$6,637
Household burglary	$1,478
Others	$0

WSIPP: Washington State Institute for Public Policy; CDCR: California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation; WA: Washington State; CA: California.

^*Includes costs for security, health care and operation.