THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF CRIME AND OTHER ANTISOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Viktor Šoltés; Katarína Repková Štofková

doi:10.12955/cbup.v5.963

Viktor Šoltés Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia
Katarína Repková Štofková Faculty of Operation and Economy of Transport and Communication, University of Žilina, Slovakia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v5.963

Keywords: Economic damage, crime, victim, financial losses, antisocial activities

Abstract

Crime and other antisocial activities are the social phenomena that adversely affect the lives of people. Besides the negative impact on the quality of human life, the crime has a negative impact also on the economy. Damage caused by criminal acts can also be quantified in economic terms. This damage consists principally of the assets stolen from victims of crime, e.g. material damage. A substantial part of the damage also represents the financial losses that were caused by the economic crime. Another part of the damage is financial compensation provided by the state to the violent crime victims or their family members.

The paper deals with the analysis of the economically quantified damage caused by different types of crime in the Slovak Republic. The aim of this paper is to identify and analyze types of crimes that cause the largest economic losses and subsequently propose measures for elimination of critical types of crime to prevent greater economic losses.

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