Impact on Victims

• Victims


  Property - replace goods, insurance costs, fear
• Victims


  Violent - emotional (PTSD, Trauma, Fear)
• Victims 


  Injury / Death (physical) - disability, work affected
• Perpetrators 


  Custodial sentences - loss of liberty, no freedom, no choice, criminal record and emotional cost of family and friends
• Perpetrators


  Non-Custodial sentences - fines, community services (CPO) and Tags
• Families


  Perpetrators family - Poor role mode, economic cost of family member in prison, shame/social stigma and relationships break down
• Families


  Victims family - trauma and cost
• Wider Society


  Economic (what taxpayers pay for) - damages, courts, police, prison and NHS
• Wider Society


  Social - no tourists, vandalism, run down communities, lack of service and broken window theory (environment encouraging behaviour)
• Financial impact (violent crime)

  Loss of income, need to take time off work, unable to work
• Violent crimes


  Loss of confidence, physical suffering, scarring, difficulty sleeping and eating disorders
• Psychological effects (violent crime)

  PTSD, Anxiety, depression
• Social effects (violent crime)


  Having to move house, avoiding certain places, avoiding travel
• All crime surveys in the UK show that men are more likely to be victims of violent crime than woman (2% of men and 1.3% of women)
• Men are the main victims of violent crimes apart from domestic violence, where women are more likely victims ( 0.3% of women, 0.1% of men)
• Figures from ‘The Home Office Homicide Index’ for the year ending march 2020 shows that 73% of homicide victims were male and 27% were female
• In 2021/22 the emotional impacts reported by victims of violent crime were in annoyance (51% of violent crime), anger (46%) and shock (34%)
• Property crime impact 


  55% of property crimes, the victims had something stolen
• Property crime impact 


  63% of such cases of values of property stolen was less than £100
• Property crime impact 


  In only 8% of incidents, was the value of property lost, more than £1000
• One impact of crime on victims is financial. People who are a victim of theft or robbery have lost some of their possessions and may not have insurance to replace them. For example, those in the lowest wealth bracket in the UK are the least likely to have insurance and most likely to be a victim of theft.
• One impact of crime on victims is physical. People who are a victim of violent crime have been injured (sometimes permanent) or even murdered. For example, a man in Bristol was a victim to violent crime, his ex attacked him with corrosive acid which left him blind in one eye and disabled.