The crime cost 115 billion every year .

One economist has estimated the financial burden of crimes on the community. 

Policemen patrol, January 20, 2010 in Woippy, following clashes between strators and police occurred after a stration in honor of the three victims of a motorcycle . 

More than 115 billion euros per year, or 1,700 euros per capita on average! The latest assessment of the cost of crime in FranceFigaro in June 2007. He had reached a total of 20 billion. Professor Bichot fivefold therefore bet, offering an approach that includes the moral damage to victims and their relatives. The key points of this document: smashed all records. Revealed by the Institute for Justice, an association active in the debate on criminal justice, it is the result of hard work by an economist and mathematician Jacques Bichot, professor emeritus at the University of Lyon-III. Until then, only a police officer trained in the fraud squad, Jean-Philippe Arlaud, had the audacity to try this estimate in a study revealed by

 

Indirect costs directset:

The statistical study period extends from July 2008 to June 2009, for a total of over 4.5 million facts reported to the police and gendarmerie. Beyond the direct costs of theft, destruction, fraud and other crimes, the author includes the indirect costs of security and justice, the cost of higher insurance premiums, but also - and this is a small revolution - the pain and suffering. How? In relying, for example, on compensation practiced in the courts of appeal on the basis of calculation of road safety organizations. He adds the cost of the private protection. And the picture is striking: if the crime cost 30 billion to the victims, it weighed twice as financially burdensome for the community (see graphic).

Fraud against the public revenue, the national sport:

In the hit parade of crimes, tax evasion (22 billion loss) prances in front, computer crime (14 billion), wounding (6.6 billion), (5.3 billion) and procuring (5.2 billion). The author also accounts for at least 800 million fraud social benefits (RMI, housing benefit, lone parent). The case of polygamous Nantes is far from being an isolated case ...

Illegal Immigrant: France paied once the fare:

Racketeering suffered by some 20,000 immigrants each year using smuggling networks is estimated at 10,000 euros per head. "The mafia mafia organization or near a portion of illegal immigration costs from 210 to 300 million euros for the stakeholders and their families, and 405 million by the French company (excluding punitive measures), reveals the Economist, which says it is, per individual, "an average additional cost of 20,000 euros for the French public finances.

The gulf financierdes cars burned:

The cars on fire, "whether to collect the insurance or to show that we" "" represent, according to the author, 50,000 vehicles per year, a quarter of total vehicle damaged or destroyed. "The damage average about 5000 euros for 100,000 vehicles made irreparable, and 2,000 euros for the other, over 1,000 euros in all cases for the process" and costs. Total cost: over 1.5 billion!

Reduce crimepour lower taxes?

The method Bichot make every piece of the crime. Even ism is encrypted by him, 20 million of direct injury. He said, however: do not "foolishly imagine that the currency" may be "the measure of everything." His conclusion is sobering: "The crime costs approximately 5.6% of GDP. In other words, if we could cut crime in half, we would get the equivalent of a total abolition of the income tax! "Brice Hortefeux has only to take his calculator. If official figures are correct, the decrease of 14% of crimes since 2002 have already saved the country more than 15 billion.