Mainstreaming Methodology for Estimating Costs of Crime
The best known studies of the costs of crime by a government justice research department are arguably two Home Office reports, the first by Brand & Price (2000) and a follow-up five years later by Dubourg et al (2005).
The output from these studies is summarised in two tables here.
The first Home Office study is often referred to as ‘HORS 217’, the reference number of the report.
The follow-up Home Office study updates estimates using data from 2003-04 and uses a refined methodology to re-estimate costs for 2000.
