ECONOMIC IMPACT ON VICTIMS

Question 1

Low income

Answer 1

• 23% vs 18%, least/most deprived areas = victims
  -lost work hours/ recovery costs
• rape= 321 total lost hours
• violence with injury = 112 total lost hours
• poor cannot replace stolen items= obstructs social mobility
• Insurance costs more in low income areas
• higher shop prices ( hiring difficulty, stolen stock, insurance)
• social breakdown/isolation/lost community
• shops/ business suffer = areas economy falls/ place becomes deserted and undesirable

Question 2

Women

Answer 2

• social/emotional/physical impacts can lead to economic/ increased poverty
• hard drug policies internationally disproportionally affect women ( low-level high risk activities due to poverty or coercion)
• Prison sentences due to inability to pay fines or bails
• criminalisation for more petty crimes such as adultery/prostitution
• prison - protection for rape victims
• rape reportedly most hours of work loss, most commonly faced by women

Question 3

Age

Answer 3

-the number of homicides per year in the UK of under 25s year olds rises every year, 144 in 2021 ( eng wales)
- criminal gang deaths also high - 135 in 2018
- a study in the London mayors office found a rise in poverty resulted in a rise in youth crime
- Richmond upon Thames vs tower hamlets
- financial impact of crime= traps people in poverty= children at risk = generational crime ( unable to grow up healthily with ample jobs education etc)

Question 4

Generic costs

Answer 4

Physical- £50-£800 ( bruising to broken bones)
Emotional- £2500-£26,600 ( fear, depression ,anxiety)
Non-violent- £1500- £2540
( impossible for low-income, many impacts of crime money cannot take away)

Question 5

Emotional impact

Answer 5

• 80% victims of violent crime = emotionally impacted
• 17%= impacted very much
• 80% negative effect on sense of security
• 60% negative effect on physical health
• 57% negative effect on finances
• 41% negative effect on relationships