On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Brian Hurt wrote: > The cost of crimes, however, is dispropotionate, as violent crime racks > up the costs a lot faster: > http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/ncvrw/1998/html/costcrme.htm > > Note that robberies only cost $500 million in 1996, while rapes cost > $127 billion the same year. But note that only 3% of medical expenses > are crime related. I think the total robbery cost includes only the value of stolen items. I have no idea what "costs" are included in the rape value. A total of $127 billion for rape is an average of about $433 per US resident per year. That must include the cost of policing, detective work, prosecution of offenders, incarceration, etc., etc. > Which sounds really bad, until you start comparing it to chronic diseases: > http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/overview.htm > > Heart disease is the real killer. Rather than worrying about that > psycopath, try quitting smoking, eating right, and exercising more. Wow! You sound just like one of our faculty!! Mike -- Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and Institute of Human Genetics University of Minnesota http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list