PRESENTATIONS

Timo Kvist, Mayor of the City of Naantali, Finland,
Chair of the National Council for Crime Prevention,
Opening of the Seminar

Timo Kvist - Opening of the seminar (21kB) PDF-file

Johannes Koskinen, Minister of Justice, Finland
Focus on costs

Minister Koskinen - Focus on costs (40kB) PDF-file

Mark A Cohen, Professor, Vanderbilt University, USA
Monetary value of crime and the paying party

Cohen - Cost of crime (191kB) PDF-file

Pat Mayhew, Home Office, UK
Counting the costs of crime in Australia

Mayhew - The Cost of Crime in Australia (125kB) PDF-file

Richard Dubourg and Jamie Thorns, Home Office, UK
'Conceptual and Empirical Developments in the Measurement of the Costs of Crime in England and Wales'

Dubourg-Thorns-Cost of crime-crimes (79kB) PDF-file

Paul van Soomeren and Jack Wever, DSP-groep BV
Design, methodology and first results from the EUCPN project on cost and benefits of crime prevention

A review of the current knowledge on costs and benefits of crime prevention in the EU member states (186kB) PDF-file

Van-Soomeren-Vewer-(Ekblom) Wheel (208kB) PDF-file

Aarne Kinnunen, Ministerial advisor, Ministry of Justice, Finland
Costing crime in Europe and in Finland

Kinnunen - Costing Crime in Finland (146kB) PDF-file

Göran Skogh, Professor, Linköping University
The Social Costs of Property Crimes
(no materials avaiable at this time)

Markku Heiskanen, Senior Researcher, Police College, Finland
Overall and municipal costs of violence against women in Hämeenlinna

Heiskanen - The Costs of Violence Against Women in Hämeenlinna (122kB) PDF-file

Daniel Sansfaçon, Deputy Director, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime
Cost-benefits of crime prevention

Sansfacon - cost-benefit studies and crime prevention (presentation) (42kB) PDF-file

Sansfacon - full paper (275kB) PDF-file

WORKSHOPS

1. Comparison of Costs in EU countries – what is available, what is needed and how to go forward? (Paul van Soomeren)
–What kinds of data are available and what would be needed for a comparison that would satisfy at least some minimum requirements for reliable comparability?

Report from the working group 1 - Comparison of costs in EU countries (50kB) PDF-file

2. Cost or transfer of income – methods and problems of summing total costs (Mark Cohen)
–What to count and what not to count to get the most adequate description and to avoid double counting?

3. Insured costs – the role of insurance and other secondary payers in the distribution of costs of crime (Kauko Aromaa)
–How some costs of crime are transferred to payers other than the immediate victims? The roles of insurance, taxation and other systems.

4. Distribution of costs between state and city in EU countries (Hannu Takala and Elizabeth Johnston)
–How the economic relationships between the state and the local government are organized? Which costs of crime are born by the state and which ones by the municipalities? –How can cities be victims of crime? What is the impact of crime as a social problem to cities?

5. Cost-benefits of crime prevention (Daniel Sansfaçon)
–What do we know of the cost-benefits of crime prevention? How could we summarize the core lessons? What kinds of data are needed to assess cost-benefits? What are the important blinds spots?

Report from the working group 5 - Cost-benefit analysis of crime prevention (26kB) PDF-file

Concluding words by Hannu Takala

Concluding words (57kB) PDF-file