Mainstreaming Methodology for Estimating Costs of Crime
Incarceration may place significant costs on the family of an offender. It may disrupt many aspects of family life include income, provision of child care and of other household services. Visiting an offender can be time-consuming and costly especially if prison accommodation is isolated or where over-crowding means more offenders being held a long way from home. Children may become more liable to social exclusion and suffer psychologically. Many of the costs of responding to these pressures will fall on agencies outside the criminal justice system such as social work providers or schools.
These kinds of costs are rarely dealt with explicitly. But they are sometimes reflected in resettlement or support programmes that focus on issues such as preserving accommodation tenancies for the families of prisoners.
Bibliographical review: Losses to Offender’s Family review
Costing issues: Losses to Offender’s Family
