Building a return on investment capability in the Justice sector [pdf, 652 KB]
...costs, such as the emotional distress experienced by victims of serious crimes. 73. So while social and economic costs provide the most comprehensive reckoning of ROI, they are also the most uncertain. As noted by Treasury in their 2006 report: “Care needs to be taken when interpreting these results because they rely considerably on assumptions, including the assumed volume of actual crime, and the costs that crime imposes on victims. This difficulty in constructing robust estimates...