The Influence of Scope, Frames, and Extreme Willingness to Pay Responses on Cost of Crime Estimates

Lee, Jacqueline; Fisher, Daren

doi:10.1007/s12103-019-09508-1

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“…To our knowledge, this study provides the first estimate in the United States for how much people are willing to pay to improve the brightness of street lighting with the goal of improving public safety. While other research evaluates people's willingness to pay to reduce crime broadly, such studies typically ask survey respondents about unnamed programs that would reduce crime by a certain amount (Ludwig and Cook 2001;Cohen et al 2004;Loomes 2007;Bishop and Murphy 2011;Cohen 2015;Stickle 2015;Baker et al 2016;Brenig and Proeger 2018;Piquero and Steinberg 2010;Lee and Fisher 2020). 15 Perhaps surprisingly the approach has rarely been used in the CPTED literature.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

Kaplan

Chalfin

2021

Secur J

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Observational evidence suggests that better ambient lighting leads people to feel safer when spending time outdoors in their community. We subject this finding to greater scrutiny and elaborate on the extent to which improvements in street lighting affect routine activities during nighttime hours. We report evidence from a survey experiment that examines individuals’ perceptions of safety under two different intensities of nighttime ambient lighting. Brighter street lighting leads individuals to feel safer and over half of survey respondents are willing to pay an additional $400 per year in taxes in order to finance a hypothetical program which would replace dim yellow street lights with brighter LED lights. However, poor lighting does not change people’s willingness to spend time outdoors or to engage in behaviors which mitigate risk. Results suggest that street lighting is a means through which policymakers can both control crime and improve community well-being. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41284-021-00296-0.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

Kaplan

Chalfin

2021

Secur J

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“…This study shows dual estimations of the public crime cost in currency terms by two approaches, one of based on bottom-up official accounting and another derived from topdown willingness-to-pay. Such dual estimations essentially cover the popular and feasible ways of crime cost estimation (Lee et al 2019;Osterman et al 2016). Generally, bottomup estimation sums up cost components to obtain the total cost, whereas top-down estimation estimates the total cost directly.…”

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“…As such, the interviewer continued to quote a higher or lower amount until the respondent denied any increment or decrement. This procedure would optimize the accuracy of open-ended estimation by urging the respondent's deliberation (Lee et al 2019). Eventually, the crime cost was the sum of expenses on three crime cost components, rehabilitation, criminal justice and prevention.…”

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“…The cost of crime, which is a harmful and legally prohibited act, is a public concern (Aboal et al 2017;Wickramasekera et al 2015). It requires an estimation for making and guiding cost-effective accountable policies and practices in a place (Lee et al 2019). The estimation for each place is necessary because of vast variation in the cost across places due to economic, political, legal and sociocultural differences among places (Aboal et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Crime Costs to the Public in Hong Kong

Cheung

Chui

2021

Soc Indic Res

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The cost of crime to the public, as a public concern, requires an estimation pertinent to the context, considering substantial contextual variation. Meanwhile, the estimation needs to address issues about feasibility and validity. To address the issues, the present study exemplifies the estimation with both official accounting and tripartite willingness-to-pay approaches. The tripartite approach combines the cost components of rehabilitation, criminal justice and prevention due to crime. This approach relied on telephone surveys of 1321 adult residents among the public and 91 professionals dealing with crime in the Chinese metropolis of Hong Kong. Results showed that the public crime cost estimates were $8343 from accounting and US$7466 and US$11,786 from the surveys of public and professionals respectively. The public's estimate was significantly predictable by background characteristics, as expected from economic theory. These results imply the feasibility and validity of the estimation approaches.

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“…(Heeks et al, 2018). Second, criminal activity is associated to social costs that affect welfare gains and economic performance for the whole society (Lee & Fisher, 2020). These social costs are related to the more productive use of the resources employed to prevent criminal activity (e.g., the police, prisons, etc.)…”

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The impact of crime on firm entry

Barbieri

2022

Journal of Regional Science

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The article investigates the effect of crime on firm entry rates in Italian provinces over the period 2007–2016. The extant literature focuses mainly on the relationship between crime and the sorting of new businesses. The present paper contributes to this stream of work by estimating the effect of crime on the overall propensity to engage in entrepreneurial activities across a national territory. We measure the extent to which property and violent crime affect firm entry rates using an instrumental variable approach in which the instrument for criminal activity is the effective abortion rate. Our findings suggest that crime has a negative, sizable impact on firm entry. The results are robust to alternative instrumental variables and firm entry indicators. This empirical exercise emphasizes the need to consider loss of new business activities as a downstream effect when computing the social costs of crime.

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The Influence of Scope, Frames, and Extreme Willingness to Pay Responses on Cost of Crime Estimates

Cited by 5 publications

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Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

Ambient lighting, use of outdoor spaces and perceptions of public safety: evidence from a survey experiment

Crime Costs to the Public in Hong Kong

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